Austrian architect and designer Hans Hollein, a winner of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize whose work ranged from big museums through tiny shops to furniture and sunglasses, has died. He was 80. [...]
He won the 1985 Pritzker Prize for his work, which often included touches of fancy, such as bronze-clad palm trees in a Vienna travel agency.
— washingtonpost.com
RIP Hans Hollein (1934 - 2014), independent architect, artist and professor.
From 1976-2002, Hollein served as a professor at the University of Applied Art in Vienna, where he was also Dean of the Architecture department. He also held professorships at Yale University, Washington University in St. Louis, University of California, Los Angeles, and Ohio State University. According to Dorothea Apovnik, a spokeswoman for Hollein's family, he died in Vienna after a long illness.
The following is a selection of Hollein's work, including his Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main and Haas-Haus in Vienna.
Additional images of Hollein's earlier work are available here.
Donna Sink has begun a thread in the forum honoring Hollein, discussing his life and work.
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Christopher Hawthorne wrote a lovely obituary, including this quote from Hollein's Pritzker acceptance speech: "the creation of something new, the artificial in a dialectic with nature. I have always considered architecture as an art. To me architecture is not primarily the solution of a problem, but the making of a statement."
http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-hans-hollein-20140425,0,5400387.story#ixzz2ztoKCxx0
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