!!!Holzbauer, Wilhelm

b. Salzburg, Sept. 3, 1930, architect. 1950-1953 student of C.  
Holzmeister at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, 1956-1957 at M. I. 
T. in Cambridge, 1957-1959 visiting professor in Canada and the USA, 
until 1964 member of the  Arbeitsgruppe 4, from 1964 had his own 
office in Vienna, 1977-1998 professor at the Hochschule fuer 
angewandte Kunst (now University of Applied Arts) in Vienna. Exponent 
of "pragmatic" architecture with monumental symbolism, physiognomical 
precision and manneristical superelevation. Spacious arrangement of 
complex buildings. Numerous international awards.

!Works
Bildungshaus St. Virgil, Salzburg, 1965-1976; residential 
estate "Wohnen morgen", Vienna, 1973-1979; Vorarlberg Landhaus, 
Bregenz, 1975-1981 (with G. Maetzler, N. Schweitzer, N. Rapf); city 
hall and opera, Amsterdam (with C. Dam and Bijovet en Holt); 
Scientific Department of the University of Salzburg, 1978-1986 (with 
H. Ekhart, S. Huebner, G. Ladstaetter and M. Marschalek); Biozentrum 
at the University of Frankfurt a. M., 1988-1993 (with E. Mayr); office 
block Lasallestrasse/Praterstern, Vienna, 1990-1993 (with H. Glueck, 
K. Hlaweniczka, H. Lintl, G. Lippert); Ringstrassengalerien, Vienna, 
1990-1993 (with G. Lippert); Andromeda Tower, Vienna, 1993-1997; 
memorial for all victims of the Battle of Stalingrad, Wolgograd, 1996; 
Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, 1996; Austrian National Bank, addition, 
1997; Tech-Gate Vienna, 2000.

!Literature
W. H., Bauten und Projekte 1953-85, 1985; W.H., Bauten und 
Projekte 1985-1990, 1990; F. Achleitner, W. H. Buildings and Projects 
- Bauten und Projekte, 1995; W. H. Arbeiten aus den letzten 5 Jahren 
des vergangenen Jahrtausends, exhibition catalogue, Universitaet fuer 
angewandte Kunst, Vienna 2000.


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