Hans Puchhammer

Hans Puchhammer (* 1931 in Wels ) is an Austrian architect .

Life

Puchhammer studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology from 1949 to 1956 and was assistant at the Institute for Structural Engineering for civil engineers from 1957 to 1964 and professor for structural engineering and design at the Vienna University of Technology from 1978 to 1994.

As an architect, Puchhammer worked from 1950 to 1954 in Roland Rainer's architecture office . He held talks with Lois Welzenbacher at the Academy of Fine Arts and attended the summer academy in Salzburg with Konrad Wachsmann . He has been a freelance architect in Vienna since 1956 and had an office partnership with Gunther Wawrik from 1961 to 1980 .

From 1998 to 2003 Puchhammer was chairman of the monument advisory board in the Federal Monuments Office .

Awards

• 1978: Prize of the City of Vienna for Architecture
• 1981: Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria for Architecture
• 2011: Heinrich Gleißner Prize
• 2012: Great Culture Prize of the State of Upper Austria for Architecture

Realizations with Gunther Wawrik

• 1965–1966: Terrace houses ›Goldtruhe‹ in Brunn am Gebirge , Austrian builder award 1969
• 1967–1976: General renovation of the Burgenland State Museum in Eisenstadt

Realizations

General renovation of the Carnuntinum Museum in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg (1988–1992)

• 1983: Adaptations in the Palais Ofenheim of the Zurich Kosmos Insurance on Schwarzenbergplatz in Vienna
• 1984–1986: Revitalization of a residential building in the Wasagasse protection zone in Vienna, No. 28
• 1985–1988: Catholic Theological University Linz
• 1981–1996: Extensions in the main building of the Technical University of Vienna
• Rental houses on Webgasse in Vienna
• Rental houses in the Perfektastraße in Vienna
• 1988–1992: General renovation and reconstruction of the Carnuntinum Museum in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg
• 1997–2001: General renovation of the Wiener Konzerthaus
• 1998–2001: Extension and renovation of the parish church Seewalchen am Attersee

Publications

• Hans Puchhammer. Building can be architecture. Austrian Society for Architecture (ed.) With texts by Friedrich Achleitner , Otto Kapfinger , Pustet Verlag, Salzburg 2004, ISBN 3-7025-0487-7 .
• with Friedrich Achleitner, Romana Ring: Roland Ertl . Architecture 1960–2004 , Pustet Verlag, Salzburg 2004, ISBN 3-7025-0504-0 .

Web links

• Entry on Hans Puchhammer in the Austria Forum  (biography)