Hans Hollein (1934-2014) was an Austrian architect. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and the University of California. In 1964 he founded his own office. Holein was a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis and the Yale School of Architecture.
It is said his buildings were beyond category – a blend of modernist and traditional.
“The Pritzker Prize Jury honors Hans Hollein as a master of his profession—one who with wit and eclectic gusto draws upon the traditions of the New World as readily as upon those of the Old. An architect who is also an artist, he has the good fortune to design museums that are then eager to place within their walls works of art from his hand, whether in the form of drawings, collages, or sculpture. In the design of museums, schools, shops, and public housing, he mingles bold shapes and colors with an exquisite refinement of detail and never fears to bring together the richest of ancient marbles and the latest in plastics. The Jury salutes him as a superb teacher, who urges the young by his example to take big chances and yet make sure that not the designer but the thing designed remains of paramount importance. Unflaggingly, he continues to practice what he proclaimed upon behalf of his fellow architects a quarter of a century ago, at the beginning of his distinguished career: “We give back to man the joy of building.”” Pritzker Prize Jury Citation 1985
Retti Candle Shop
1965, Vienna, Austria
Feigen Gallery
1969, New York
Schullin Jewellery Shop
1974, Vienna
Glass and Ceramics House
1978, Teheran, Iran
Abterberg Museum
1982, Monchangladback
Rauchstrasse Apartments
1985, Berlin
Guggenheim Museum im Monchsberg
1989, Salzburg Austria
Haas Haus
1990, Vienna
Ganztagsschule
1990, Vienna
Museum fur Moderne Kunst
1991, Frankfurt
Interbank Headquarters
2000, Lima, Peru
Generali Media Tower Donaukanal
2000, Vienna
Austrian Embassy
2001, Berlin
Vulcania European Centre of Vulcanology
2002, Auvergne, France
Neiderosterreichisches Landersmuseum
2002, St Polten, Austria
Centrum Bank
2002, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Albertina Museum Extension
2003, Vienna
Sea Mio Apartment Towers
2007, Taipei, Taiwan
Hilton Hotel
2008, Vienna
Pezet 515
2011, Lima
