!!!Czech, Hermann

b. Vienna, Nov. 10, 1936, architect. Studied under K. Wachsmann and E. 
A.  Plischke. Theoretical publications and studies (O. Wagner, A. 
Loos, J. Frank). Advocate of a new "silent" type of architecture which 
only "talks" when "it is asked"; at first only small buildings. C.'s 
concept of "architecture as background" also characterizes his town 
planning projects.

!Works
in Vienna: cafes, bars, restaurants, houses and exhibitions; 
collaboration on the planning of the underground railway (U-Bahn). 
Kleines Cafe, 1970/1974; basement alterations Palais Schwarzenberg, 
1982-1984; footbridge in the Stadtpark, 1985-1987; houses in 
Perchtoldsdorf, 1989-1994; elementary school in Simmering, 1991-1994; 
main building of Bank Austria in Vienna, 1997 (reconstruction). -

!Publications
Das Looshaus, 1976 (with W. Mistelbauer); Zur 
Abwechslung. Ausgew. Schriften zur Architektur, 1978; J. Frank 
1885-1967, 1981 (with J. Spalt); Zur Abwechslung, 1996.


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