Hans Hollein

Haas-Haus in Vienna, 1985-1990

Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, 1983-1991

Abteiberg Museum, Moenchengladbach, Germany, 1972-1982)

Car Building, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany, 2011

Hans Hollein, (born March 30, 1934 in Vienna) is an Austrian architect and designer.

Hollein achieved a diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1956, then attended the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1959 and the University of California, Berkeley in 1960. He has worked for various agencies in Sweden and in America before returning to Vienna, founding his own agency in 1964.

In 1985 Hollein was awarded the Pritzker Prize.

In 1963/64 and 1966 Hollein was a guest professor in the Washington University in St. Louis. In 1967-76 he was professor in the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf. Since 1976 he was professor of the "Universität für angewandte Kunst" in Vienna.

Hollein works mainly as an architect, but has also established himself as a designer for the Memphis Group and Alessi.

He also staged exhibitions, e. g. for the Biennale in Venice. In 1980 he designed the stage for a production of Arthur Schnitzler's drama Komödie der Verführung (Comedy of Seduction) at Vienna's Burgtheater.

Main works

• 1964-1965 : Retti candle shop, Vienna, Austria Photo
• 1972 : Schullin Jewellery shop, Vienna
• 1972-1982 : Abteiberg Museum Mönchengladbach
• 1983 : Rauchstrasse in Berlin
• 1987-1991 : Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main
• 1990 : Haas-Haus in Vienna
• 1992-2002 : Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum, St. Pölten (Austria)
• 1996-2001 : Austrian Embassy in Berlin Photos

Interbank Headquarters, Lima, Peru

• 1997-2002 : Centrum Bank in Vaduz (Principality of Liechtenstein) in collaboration with Bargetze+Partner
• 1997-2002 : Vulcania - European Centre of Vulcanology in Auvergne (France) Photos
• 2001-2003 : Albertina (Vienna) (museum)
• 2004-2008 : Hilton hotel, Vienna
• 1996-2000 : Interbank Headquarters, Lima, Peru
• 1994-2000 : Generali Media Tower Donaukanal, Vienna
• Guggenheim ('Museum im Mönchsberg'), Salzburg, Austria (planning 1989-)
• Ganztagsschule, Vienna
• 1977-1978 : Glass and Ceramics house, Teheran, Iran
• 1967-1969 : Feigen Gallery, New York
• 2006-2011 : Pezet 515, Lima

Prizes

• Reynolds Memorial Award 1966 and 1984
• Großer Österreichischer Staatspreis 1983
• Pritzker Prize 1985
• Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst 1990
• Ehrenmedaille der Bundeshauptstadt Wien in Gold

External links

• Official site
• Pritzker Prize gallery
• ARCHIGUIDE
• The "Haas House" in Vienna a short video about Holleins building in the historical city center of Vienna