Elsa Prochazka

Elsa Prochazka (born August 25, 1948 in Vienna ) is an Austrian architect .

Life

Prochazka studied architecture from 1966 to 1970 at the Technical University of Vienna and then in Ernst Plischke's master class at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and graduated in 1973 with a diploma. In 1974 she founded the IGIRIEN planning association with the architects Werner Appelt and Franz E. Kneissl . This existed until the mid-1980s.

From 1980 working as a freelance architect and civil engineer.

Her work focuses on residential and urban planning, public buildings, office and industrial construction, museum and exhibition design, design and crossover, corporate architecture .

From 1992 to 1996 she was professor for design in the urban context at the University of Kassel . From 1998 to 2001 she was a visiting examiner at University College London , Department of Architecture, The Bartlett. From 2001 to 2013 Elsa Prochazka was a professor and head of the course "Raum- & Designstrategien" at the University of Artistic and Industrial Design Linz , 2014 Visiting Professor at the University of Naples Federico II .

She has been a member of the Vienna Secession and has chaired the architectural advisory board of the Federal Real Estate Company since 2013; From 2011 to 2015 she was also a member and chairwoman of the Salzburg Design Advisory Board .

Realizations (selection)

Karree St. Marx (2010)

• 1977–1982: Three church multi-purpose halls (pastoral care stations) together with Werner Appelt and Franz Eberhard Kneissl as the IGIRIEN working group
• 1991: Bibelwerk bookstore, Vienna 1st
• 1992–1995: Music memorials Vienna : Haydn house, Beethoven- Pasqualati house , Johann-Strauss-apartment, Mozart-Figaro house, Beethoven Eroika house, Beethoven Probusgasse , Schubert's birthplace, Schubert 's death-house , presentation concept and repositioning
• 1992–1994: Hietzinger Hauptstrasse elementary school - extension, Vienna 13th.
• 1992–1994: Folklore Museum , Palais Schönborn , repositioning of the permanent collection, Cafèhaus, Vienna 8th.
• 1994: Margarete-Schütte-Lihotzky-Hof , residential building Vienna 21., (project " Frauen-Werk-Stadt " with Liselotte Peretti, Gisela Podreka, Franziska Ullmann)
• 1994: Margarete-Schütte-Lihotzky-Hof daycare center, Vienna 21., Carminweg
• 1996: Donaufelderhof residential building, Vienna 21.
• 1997: Arnold Schönberg Center Palais Fanto , Vienna 3rd, exhibition and event rooms, library, archive, office space
• 1998: Coca-Cola Beverages, Vienna 10., Triester Straße, renovation, new building, facade, office furnishings (Aluminum Architecture Prize 2000)
• 1999: Café Cult, Künstlerhaus Salzburg
• 1999: Residential and boarding house, Tokiostraße, Vienna 22.
• 1999–2003 University of Applied Sciences Vienna 20th, Höchstädtplatz, ARGE Neumann & Prochazka
• 2002–2005: Housing, Vienna 10., Monte Laa, Vienna
• 2003: Don Juan comes out of the war Ödön von Horváth, Volkstheater, Vienna, stage design
• 2008: Housing at Attemsgasse 5, Vienna 22., ARGE Elsa Prochazka with Baumschlager & Eberle Vienna ZT GmbH
• 2006–2010: Karree St. Marx, developer competition - winning project, completion March 2010
• 2008: Residential building in the Donaufeld, Vienna 22., ARGE Elsa Prochazka with Baumschlager & Eberle Vienna ZT GmbH, completion December 2011
• 2012: Housing at Attemsgasse 31, Vienna 22. Completion July 2014
• 2013: Housing Podhagskygasse, Vienna 22nd, developer competition for cost-effective living, Vienna Donaustadt - winning project, completion September 2014
• 2014: Housing in der Wiesen Süd, Vienna 23rd, developer competition - winning project on site 5

Exhibition designs (selection)

• 1984: Art with stubbornness , Museum of the 20th Century Vienna ( 20er Haus )
• 1988/1989: Rudolf. A life in the shadow of Mayerling , Hermesvilla , Vienna
• 1990/1991: The bathroom. Physical culture and hygiene in the 19th and 20th centuries , Hermesvilla Vienna, German Hygiene Museum Dresden
• 1990/1991: Jewish Museum Hohenems , Vorarlberg , interior design and museography (Austrian Museum Prize 1991)
• 1995: The Power of Images , Volkshalle, Vienna City Hall
• 1999–2002: Kitzbühel City Museum , repositioning of the exhibition collection
• 2001: Boxes - after nature , photo exhibition Margherita Spiluttini in the Technical Museum Vienna , exhibition architecture
• 2004: Museum of Perception, Villa Sinnenreich in Rohrbach in Upper Austria , exhibition architecture
• 2011: Kitzbühel City Museum, relaunch - reorganization of the Alfons Walde collection

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

• 2004: The Austrian Phenomenon April 1 - July 12, 2004, Concepts Experiments Vienna Graz 1958–1973, Architekturzentrum Wien
• 2004: The Visionary Power of Austrian Architecture: Tradition and Innovation, exhibition and lecture September 27 - November 8, 2004, CUA The Catholic University of America, School of Architecture and Planning, Washington DC
• 2005: a_schau 3rd stage October 12, 2005 - December 31, 2008, Austrian architecture in the 20th and 21st centuries, Architekturzentrum Wien (catalog)
• 2008: Venice Architecture Biennale September 13 - October 3, 2008 / Milan Politecnico di Milano October 17 - 30, 2008
• 2009–2010: Housing in Vienna . Innovative. Social. Ecologically. Vienna, Venice / Milan / Vienna / Belgrade / Berlin / Munich

Awards

• Andrea Palladio Prize
• 1991: Austrian Museum Prize (Jewish Museum Hohenems)
• 1994: Adolf Loos State Prize for Design (Biblical Works, Vienna)
• 1996: Prize of the City of Vienna for Architecture
• 2000: Aluminum Architecture Prize (Coca-Cola Beverages, Vienna)
• 2004: Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the State of Vienna
• 2007: Tyrolean Museum Prize (Kitzbühel City Museum)
• 2008: Aluminum Architecture Prize (residential building Attemsgasse 5, Vienna)
• 2013: Vienna Women's Prize

literature

• Wiener Orte - 19 works by Elsa Prochazka, catalog Galerie Aedes, Berlin 1996
• Antonio Carbone, Fernanda De Maio (Hg / Ed): Elsa Prochazka , Casa Editrice LIBRIA, Melfi, Italia, 2002, ISBN 88-87202-24-9
• Andreas Zeese: Parish Church St. Claret-Ziegelhof , in: Ann Katrin Bäumler and Andreas Zeese: Church building in Vienna after 1945: From Rudolf Schwarz to Heinz Tesar , Vienna University of Technology, Department of Art History Vienna 2007, pages 102 to 107.
• August Sarnitz: Architecture Vienna: 700 buildings , Springer-Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-211-71535-2 ; in English: Architecture Vienna: 700 buildings , 2008, ISBN 978-3-211-71578-9 .
• Elsa Prochazka (Hg / Ed): food & grid , book raum & designstrategien, Kunstuniversität Linz, Linz, 2009, ISBN 978-3-901112-49-2 .

Web links

Commons : Elsa Prochazka  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Elsa Prochazka in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Elsa Prochazka's website
• Elsa Prochazka in the architecture database nextroom
• “Elsa Prochazka” detailed conversation in the radio series A palaver freely available as a stream, March 2, 2010

Individual evidence

1. ^ Elsa Prochazka in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna ; accessed on March 21, 2017
2. ↑ Next Room: IGIRIEN ; accessed on March 21, 2017
3. ^ August Sarnitz: Architecture Vienna: 700 buildings , 1.-92
4. ^ August Sarnitz: Architecture Vienna: 700 buildings , 13.-28
5. ^ August Sarnitz: Architecture Vienna: 700 buildings , 8.-8
6. ^ August Sarnitz: Architecture Vienna: 700 buildings , 21.-29
7. ^ August Sarnitz: Architecture Vienna: 700 buildings , 3.-7
8. ^ August Sarnitz: Architecture Vienna: 700 Buildings , 10.-39
9. ^ August Sarnitz: Architecture Vienna: 700 Buildings , 22.-29
10. ^ August Sarnitz: Architecture Vienna: 700 buildings , 10.-13
11. ↑ Kunstuniversität Linz Museum of Perception, exhibition in the Villa Sinnenreich in Rohrbach, 2004.