Windbrechtinger, Wolfgang#
b. Ramingstein (province of Salzburg), Aug. 9, 1922, architect; husband of Traude Windbrechtinger. Studied at the University of Technology in Graz. Freelance architect in Vienna from 1956-1994; worked with his wife. Founding member of the Austrian Society of Architecture in 1965. Board member of the Chamber of Engineers of Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland from 1965-1968. Awarded the Austrian State Prize for Architecture in 1963.
Works (together with Traude Windbrechtinger): Multipurpose centre in
Kapfenberg, 1958; Kindergarten and housing estate Boehlerwerk, 1959;
kindergarten in Korneuburg, 1962; restaurant Bellevue, Vienna, 1963
(demolished 1982); shopping centre Hietzing (Vienna), 1964;
kindergarten in Amstetten and Ober-Grafendorf (Lower Austria), 1968;
housing estate Wassermannweg, Vienna, 1992. - Projects for churches
and urban development.
Literature#
Oe. Architektur 1960-1970, exhibition catalogue, La-Chaux-de-Fonds 1969.