(b Vienna, 30 March 1934). Austrian architect, designer and teacher. He studied (1949-53) in the Department of Civil Engineering of the Bundesgewerbeschule, Vienna, and then at the Akademie der Bildenden K?nste, Vienna, until 1956, when he received his diploma. From 1958 to 1959 he carried out postgraduate work in architecture and urban planning at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, and from 1958 to 1960 at the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley, receiving his M. Arch. degree there in 1960. From 1960 to 1964 he worked in Sweden and Germany, as well as in the USA, and by April 1964 he had established his own studio in Vienna, where his design (1965) for the Retti Candle Shop rapidly established international interest. Significant early projects include the gallery (1967-9), New York, for Richard L. Feigen and Co. Inc., the staff dining facilities (1970-71) and Siemens Foundation Building (1975) for Siemens AG in Munich and the shop design (1972), Vienna, for the Schullin jewellery business. Hollein's first major project, the St?dtisches Museum Abteiberg (1972-82; see MUSEUM, fig. 9), M?nchengladbach, marked his emergence as a leading late Modernist, rather than Post-modernist, architect. Through the 1980s he further established his reputation as a leader of the avant-garde with a series of major designs that were realized later: the Museum f?r Moderne Kunst (completed 1991; see FRANKFURT AM MAIN, fig. 3), Frankfurt am Main, the two phases of the Kohlergasse School (completed 1988 and 1991), Vienna, and the Haas Haus commercial complex (1991), opposite the Stephansdom in Vienna, which created attention in his native city.
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