Noever, Peter#

b. Innsbruck (Tyrol), May 1, 1941, designer. Since 1986 director of the Museum of Applied Art in Vienna, which was completely renovated and reorganised under his direction 1988-1993. 1975-1993 teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, 1982 founded the architectural magazine "Umriss". From 1986, as advisor to Cuba and to UNESCO, developed a revitalisation programme for the city of Havana (with C. Pruscha) and a project for an artists' quarter in the old city of Havana; 1988/1989 visiting professor of museology at the Hochschule fuer angewandte Kunst (now University of Applied Arts) in Vienna. Awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 1997.