Hubert Prachensky

Congress center in Ortisei in Val Gardena

Hubert Prachensky (born June 26, 1916 in Innsbruck ; † September 14, 2009 there ) was an Austrian architect .

Life

Prachensky attended the trade school in Innsbruck. After graduating from high school in 1934, he worked for two years with his uncle Wilhelm Nicolaus Prachensky , an architect and painter, and with Franz Baumann . He then began studying architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Clemens Holzmeister , which was interrupted by the Second World War. In 1995 he became a corps bow bearer at Gothia Innsbruck . He remained loyal to the corps until his death. In 1956 he took over the architecture office from his late uncle Wilhelm Nicolaus. In 1973 he was awarded the Ring of Honor of the City of Innsbruck and in 2005 he was made honorary citizenship of the University of Innsbruck .

Prachensky has realized over 500 projects.

1953: War Memorial Chapel, Roppen
1961–1970: Kauntertal power station, Prutz
1963: European Chapel on the Europe Bridge on the Brenner motorway in Schönberg in the Stubai Valley

around 1965: Wildsee lido , Seefeld

1968–1973: Congress House Innsbruck (with Heinz Marschalek, Norbert Gantar, Georg Ladstätter, Ernst Heiss)

1970: Congress Center Val Gardena

1973–1975: Olympia Sports and Congress Center, Seefeld (with Ernst Heiss)

1977: District heating plant Innsbruck (with Ernst Heiss)

Commons : Hubert Prachensky - collection of images, videos and audio files

Hubert Prachensky in the Archive for Architecture at the University of Innsbruck
Literature by and about Hubert Prachensky in the catalog of the German National Library

↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 44 , 364
↑ Head of the week: Hubert Prachensky on the website of the University of Innsbruck from June 13, 2005, accessed on September 16. 2009