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Egon Riss (born August 3, 1901 in Kunzendorf , Galicia , † March 17, 1964 in Colinton , Scotland ) was a British architect of Austrian origin.
Life
Egon Riss came from the Galician part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy and was of Jewish origin. After attending secondary school in Bielitz , he studied at the Technical University in Vienna . He then formed a community of architects with Fritz Judtmann , who built modern and functional public buildings in Vienna by 1934. In 1938 Riess emigrated to England via Czechoslovakia, where he served in the British Army during the Second World War. He then moved to Scotland and worked there from 1949 to 1964 for the Scottish Coal Board as a senior architect, for which he built mining structures.
Works together with Fritz Judtmann
- Outpatient clinic , Strohgasse 28, Vienna 3 (1926/27)
- Housing complex of the municipality of Vienna , Diehlgasse 20–26, Vienna 5 (1928/29)
- Tuberculosis Pavilion in Lainz Hospital (1929/30)
- Porrhaus , Operngasse 11, Vienna 4 (1930/31)
- House of the hospitality workers, commonly known as Porrhaus , Operngasse 9, Vienna 4 (1931)
Fonts
- Room refinement - the new city . Gerold, Vienna 1936
Web links
- Egon crack. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Riss, Egon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austro-British architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kunzendorf , Galicia |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1964 |
| Place of death | Colinton , Scotland |