!!!Plischke, Ernst Anton

b. Klosterneuburg (Lower Austria), June 26, 1903, 
d. Vienna, May 23, 1992, architect. Studied at the Vienna School of 
Arts and Crafts under O.  Strnad and P.  Behrens. Worked in the 
studios of P. Behrens, J.  Frank (1927/28) and E. Kahn in New York 
(1929). His first major commission, the labour exchange (Arbeitsamt) 
in Liesing, Vienna (1930), was internationally acknowledged for its 
modernism. 1939 P. emigrated to New Zealand, became a community 
planner for the Housing Ministry and from 1948 worked free-lance 
(offices and industrial buildings, houses and churches). 1963 returned 
to Vienna and taught at the Academy of Fine Arts. Basing his work on 
the "Viennese Tradition" (A.  Loos, J. Frank) he developed more 
complex structures than "International Modernism". 1935 State Prize 
for Architecture.

!Further works
semi-detached house in the "Werkbundsieldung", Vienna, 
13%%sup th/%  district, 1930-1932; Gamerith house on Lake Attersee, 
1933/1934; Frey house, Graz, 1970-1972. - Written works: Design and 
Living, 1947; Vom Menschlichen im neuen Bauen, 1969; Ein Leben mit 
Architektur, 1989.

!Literature
E. A. P., exhibition catalogue, Akademie der 
bildenden Kuenste in Wien, 1983; Magistrat der Stadt Wien (ed.), 
Architektur in Wien, 1984; F. Achleitner, Oe. Architektur im 
20. Jh., vol. III/1, 1990.



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