Pruscha, Carl#
b. Innsbruck (Tyrol), June 10, 1936, architect. 1955-1959 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under L. Welzenbacher and R. Rainer, 1960-1964 studied town planning at Harvard University. 1964-1974 adviser in area planning for the government of Nepal. From 1973 back in Austria. Since 1976 professor and head of the Institute of Planning Fundamentals and Building Research at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, 1988-2001 rector. 1959 awarded the Students' State Prize, 1999 the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art.
Works#
assisted in urban planning of Vienna and Duesseldorf; renovated the so-called "Old Palace" at Gattendorf; housing estate Biberhaufenweg, 22nd district of Vienna, 1983-1985; Kunsthaus Horn, 1986-1988; housing estate in Traviatagasse, 23rd district of Vienna, 1988-1991; renovation Semper-Depot, 1994. - Publications: Kathmandu Valley - Protective Inventory, 1975; Das Semper-Depot, 1997 (ed.).Literature#
Akademie der bildenden Kuenste (ed.), C. P., Bauen im Kathmandutal, 1981; P. Noever, Wr. Architekturgespraeche, 1991.