Podrecca, Boris#
b. Belgrade (Yugoslavia), Jan. 30, 1940, architect. 1960-1967 studied architecture at the University of Technology and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, diploma as a student of R. Rainer; 1982-1987 visiting professor in Lausanne, Paris, Venice, Philadelphia, Boston and Vienna. Since 1988 professor at the University of Stuttgart, head of the Institute of Interior Decoration and Design.
Works#
Vienna: administrative centre of the Basler Versicherungen insurance company, 1990-1993; school complex Dirmhirngasse, 1991-1994; residential complex Kapellenweg, 1993; Millennium Tower, 1995-1999 (with G. Peichl and R. F. Weber); main headquarters of the Donau-Versicherung insurance company, 1996-1998. - Lower Austria: "Tor zum Landhaus", 1993-1998 (office building with stores, with W. Pfoser). - Designs of exhibitions, residential buildings, office buildings, schools and churches in Austria and Italy; designs of public squares.Literature#
D. Steiner, Viennese Architect, B. P., 1986; J. R. Moneo et al., B. P., exhibition catalogue, 1987; ditto et al., B. P., Architecture, 1992; W. Zschokke, B. P. Arbeiten 1980-1995, 1996.