WOLF D. PRIX

Born on December 13, 1942, in Vienna. Studied at the Vienna University of Technology, in London, and in Los Angeles. Visiting professor at the Architectural Association in London in 1972, 1986, and 1988, and at Harvard University in 1990. Adjunct professor at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles from 1985 to 1995. From 1993 to 2011, he was Professor of Architectural Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, and from 2003 to 2012, he was a member of the board at the Institute of Architecture, head of Studio Prix, and vice-rector of the university. Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2001. Honorary doctorate from the Universidad de Palermo, Buenos Aires, in 2001, and from Ion Mincu University Bucharest in 2014.

Wolf D. Prix is a member of the Austrian Federal Chamber of Architects and Consulting Engineers, the Association of German Architects (BDA), the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture (FAIA). In 2006, he was commissioner for the Austrian pavilion at the Venice Biennale. In 1968, he founded Coop Himmelb(l)au together with Helmut Swiczinsky and Michael Holzer.

Wolf D. Prix is one of the outstanding representatives of architectural deconstructivism.

A century after the era of Viennese architecture around Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos, he, alongside Hans Hollein, has once again helped the extremely dense Austrian architecture scene gain international recognition. His idiosyncratic architectural language has an expressive gesture that exaggerates the consumer icons of the 20th and early 21st century.

Awards (Selection)
2017 IES Illumination Award for Outdoor Lighting Design, New York
2013 Architizer A+ Award, New York
2013 Hessischer Kulturpreis (Hessian Culture Prize)
2011 Guinness World Record, London
2009 Austrian Decoration of Honour for Science and Art
2009 Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Architectural Education
2008 RIBA European Award
2008 Jencks Award: Visions Built
2002 Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
2002 Decoration of Honor in Gold for Services to the Province of Vienna
1999 Grand Austrian State Award
1999 German Architecture Prize
1992 Erich Schelling-Architekturpreis (Erich-Schelling Architecture Prize), Karlsruhe
1989-1991 Progressive Architecture Award (three times)
1988 Architecture Award of the City of Vienna

Projects (Selection)
PANEUM – Wunderkammer des Brotes, Asten (2014-2017)
MOCAPE - Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition, Shenzhen, China (2007-2016)
Europäische Zentralbank, Frankfurt (2003-2014)
House of Music, Aalborg (2003/2008-2014)
Musée des Confluences, Lyon (2000-2013)
Busan Cinema Center, Busan, China (2005-2012)
Dalian International Conference Center, Dalian, China (2008-2012)
Heinemann Duty Free Regionals, Vienna (2011-2012)
Martin Luther Kirche, Hainburg (2008-2011)
Pavillon 21 MINI Opera Space, Munich (2008-2010)
Central Los Angeles Area High School #9 for the visual and performing arts, LA, USA (2001-2008)
BMW Welt, Munich (2001-2007)
Akron Art Museum, Ohio (2001-2007)
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich (1992/2002-2005)
Wohn- und Bürohaus Schlachthausgasse, Vienna (2001/2003-2005)
Expo.02 – Forum Arteplage Biel, Switzerland (1999-2002)
Wohnbebauung Gasometer B, Vienna (1995-2001)
SEG Wohnblock Remise, Vienna (1994-2000)
SEG Wohnturm, Vienna (1994-1998)
UFA Kinopalast, Dresden (1993-1998)
Groninger Museum, Ost-Pavillon, The Netherlands (1993-1995)
Dachausbau Falkestraße, Wien (1987-1988)

Exhibitions (Selection)
2019 Fly me to the Moon. Kunsthaus Zurich
2019 Obsession in Focus. SCI Arc, Los Angeles
2018 GA International Exhibition. Tokyo
2015 Frankfurt Lyon Dalian. DAM – Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt
2015 Energy City. SCI-Arc, Los Angeles
2015 Archiving of the Digital. CCA, Montreal
2013 COOP HIMMELB(L)AU: Dalian Conference Center. Galerie Ulysses, Vienna
2012 COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. AEDES Architecture Forum, Berlin
2011 Architecture is the Media and the Media is the Message, Busan Design Center, Corea
2009 COOP HIMMELB(L)AU: Beyond the Blue. Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio
2008/2009 Mind Expanders. MUMOK Wien; BIACS 3 Biennale Sevilla
2007/2008 COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. Beyond the Blue. Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna
2007 TOMORROW NOW. Musée d´Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg
2007 Form follows… risk. FUTURA Prag
2007 SUMMER OF LOVE, Art of the Psychedelic Era. Whitney Museum, New York
2006 The Guggenheim Architecture. Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
2005/2006 Big Bang – Destruction and Creation in 20th Century Art. Centre Pompidou, Paris
2004 The Austrian Phenomenon. Architekturzentrum Wien; Neue Galerie, Graz
2003 Schindler’s Paradise – Architectural Resistance. MAK Center, Los Angeles
2003 Housing in Vienna. Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
2002/2003 Latente Utopien/steirischer herbst 2002, Joanneum, Graz
1995 The Media Pavilion. Venice Biennal
1988 Deconstructivist Architecture. Museum of Modern Art, New York

Bibliography (Selection)
2016 Lezioni di Architettura e Design: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU Wolf D. Prix & Partner - Construire il cielo con geometrie dinamiche. Mailand: Corriere della Sera und Abitare, mit dem Politecnico di Milano School of Architecture and Urban Planning
2015 Prix, Wolf. D.: Dalian International Conference Center. New York: Oro Editions
2015 Menges, Axel (publisher): Musée des Confluences, Lyon. Stuttgart: Edition Axel Menges
2013 24 ORE Cultura, Milano, (publisher): L’architettura i protagonisti Volume 10 - COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. Rom: Gruppo editoriale L’Espresso
2012 Galerie Aedes (publisher): Say Himmelb(l)au. Berlin: Galerie Aedes
2010 Gössel, Peter (publisher): COOP HIMMELB(L)AU Complete Works 1968-2010, Cologne: Taschen
2007 Noever, Peter (publisher): COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. Beyond the Blue. Munich: Prestel Verlag
2005 Kandeler-Fritsch, Martina (publisher); Kramer, Thomas (publisher): Get Off of My Cloud - Wolf D. Prix COOP HIMMELB(L)AU Texts 1968-2005. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag
2002 Zugmann, Gerald: Blue Universe. Modelle zu Bildern machen/Transforming Models into Pictures. Architectural Projects by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag
2000 Werner, Frank: Covering + Exposing. Die Architektur von COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. Basel: Birkhäuser
1984 Galerie Aedes (publisher): Coop Himmelblau: Offene Architektur - Ent-würfe 1980-1984. Berlin: Aedes Galerie für Architektur und Raum
1983 COOP HIMMELBLAU: Architecture is now. Projects, (un)buildings, actions, statements, sketches, commentaries, 1968-1983. Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz; New York: Rizzoli; London: Thames & Hudson.
1980 Graz University of Technologie, Institute of Architectural Design (publisher): COOP Himmelblau: Architektur muss brennen (Architecture must blaze). Graz: galerie H

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