Hans Hollein

Hans Hollein (30 March 1934 – 24 April 2014) was an Austrian architect and designer and key figure of postmodern architecture. Some of his most notable works are the Haas House and the Albertina extension in the inner city of Vienna.

Biography Hollein was born in Vienna, and graduated in 1956 from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he studied in the master class of Clemens Holzmeister. During 1959 he attended the Illinois Institute of Technology and then in 1960, the University of California, Berkeley, where he completed his Master of Architecture degree. In 1963 he exhibited, Architecture, along with Walter Pichler at Galerie nächst St. Stephan in St Stephen Vienna, highlighting their ideas for utopian architecture. Afterwards, he worked for various architectural firms in Sweden and the United States before returning to Vienna, founding his own office in 1964.

In 1972, Hollein designed a series of glasses for the American Optical Corps.

Hollein worked mainly as an architect but also established himself as a designer through his work for the Memphis Group and 1984) Prize for Architecture of the City of Vienna, (1974) Grand Austrian State Prize for Architecture (1983) Pritzker Architecture Prize (1985) Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1990) Gold Decoration for Services to Vienna (1994) Grand Merit Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1997) Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria (2009) Golden Rathausmann (2009)