Wolf Dieter Prix

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Wolf Dieter Prix
Born13 December 1942 [1]
Vienna [1]
NationalityAustrian
Alma materVienna University of Technology
OccupationArchitect
PartnerHelmut Swiczinsky
Awardse. g. New York Progressive Architecture Award (three times), Lifetime Achievement Award from The Association for Computer-Aided-Design in Architecture (ACADIA) [2] [3]
PracticeAssociated architectural firm[s]
Buildings BMW Welt in Munich, the Akron Art Museum in Ohio, Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France
Projects Rooftop Remodeling Falkestrasse in Vienna, Martin Luther Church in Hainburg an der Donau
DesignVodoel (armchair), 1988, kitchen "Mal-Zeit" (meal -time) for EWE, 1987, Jammer Coat hides the wearer from Google, 2014 [4]
Website coop-himmelblau.at

Wolf Dieter Prix is an Austrian architect. In 1968 he co-founded the architects' cooperative Coop Himmelb(l)au, which has an international reputation as an important representative of deconstructivism. [5]

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Life

Early life

Wolf Prix' father was an architect; [6] Wolf looked over his father's shoulder in the office. He went to the museum with him and asked: “Why don’t we finish the Tower of Babel?” [7] [8] The visit of the priory La Tourette (designed by Le Corbusier), located near Lyon, France, was his inspiration to study architecture. [9]

Education

Wolf Prix studied at the Vienna University of Technology, the Architectural Association in London and the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, USA. [10]

Career

In 1968 he founded the Viennese architects' cooperative Himmelb(l)au together with Helmut Swiczinsky and Michael Holzer. Since Holzer (1971) and Swiczinsky (2001) left the office, Prix is the only remaining founding partner of the office. He currently heads it as Design Principal and managing director. [11] [12] In 2006 he was commissioner for the Austrian pavilion at the 10th Venice Architecture Biennale.

Teaching

He taught as a visiting professor at the Architectural Association in London in 1984 and in 1990 at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 1985 to 1995 Prix was adjunct professor at the SCI-Arc in Los Angeles. [13] In 1993 he was appointed full professor for architectural design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. [14] From 2003 to 2012 he was a board member at the Institute for Architecture, head of the Studio Prix and vice-rector of the university. He has been a faculty member at Columbia University in New York since 1998. At the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) he took over the Harvey S. Perloff Chair in 1999 and a visiting professorship in 2001. [15]

Memberships

From 1995 to 1997, Wolf Prix was a member of the architecture advisory board at the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research. He is a member of the Austrian Art Senate, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the advisory board for Building Culture. He is also a member of the Austrian Chamber of Architects, the Santa Clara Chamber of Architects in Cuba, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Italian Chamber of Architects. He is an honorary member of the Association of German Architects BDA. [16]

Awards

Wolf Prix has received numerous awards, such as the City of Vienna Prize for Architecture in 1988, the New York Progressive Architecture Award three times from 1989 to 1991 and the Grand Austrian State Prize for Architecture in 1999. In 2001 he received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad de Palermo in Buenos Aires, and in 2002 the Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria for Services to the State of Vienna. In 2002 he became an officer of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres . In 2004 he received the Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Architectural Education for his commitment to education and teaching, in 2008 the Jencks Award for his special contribution to architecture in theory and practice and the RIBA European Award for BMW World. The Federal Austrian President Heinz Fischer awarded him in May 2009 the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in recognition of his outstanding creative achievements. [6] In 2011 he was made honorary citizenship of the city of Busan, South Korea. 2013 he received the Hessian Cultural Prize (master builder of dreams). 2021 Prix got the Lifetime Achievement Award from ACADIA. [17]

Exhibitions

Literature (selection)

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  2. ↑ "AWARD PRESENTATION Lifetime Achievent Award". twitter.com. 3 October 2021. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
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  6. 1 2 Schinnerl, I. "Prix, Wolf D. * 13. 12. 1942, Wien Architekt". austria-forum.org (in German). Retrieved 7 November 2021.
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  11. ↑ Overstreet, Kaley (15 November 2020). "The Early Days and the Enduring Legacy of Coop Himmelb(l)au". archdaily.com. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
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  14. ↑ Kwinter, Sanford (2016). "What I Learned from Wolf Prix". Sanford Kwinter What i learned from Wolf Prix. Birkhäuser. p. 259. doi:10.1515/9783035612189-127. ISBN   978-3-0356-1218-9 . Retrieved 7 November 2021.{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
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  16. ↑ "Honorary Members". bda-nrw.de. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  17. ↑ ACADIA (3 November 2021). "ACADIA 2021: Lifetime Achievement Award to Wolf D Prix from Coop Himmelblau". youtube.com. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
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