IGIRIES

IGIRIEN was an Austrian planning and studio community that was founded in 1974 by the architect Elsa Prochazka and the architects Werner Appelt and Franz E. Kneissl and dissolved again in the mid-1980s.

Members

• Elsa Prochazka (born August 25, 1948 in Vienna)
• Franz E. Kneissl (born February 9, 1945 in Judenburg, Styria; † September 29, 2011 in Krumpendorf, Carinthia)

At the end of the 1990s, Kneissl retired as an architect and devoted himself more to writing. In 2001 he published the novel "A rat named apple", including a settlement with the crippling bureaucracy of the building industry, and in 2006 the book of stories "Taxi to the parking lot".

• Werner Appelt (born August 8, 1937 in Vienna)

A freelance architect who studied architecture under Clemens Holzmeister at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna .

buildings

Ecclesiastical multi-purpose hall Vienna-Jedlersdorferstrasse

On buildings they realized:

• Ecclesiastical multi-purpose hall, Vienna-Rennweg (1977)
• Volkshochschule Margareten, Vienna (1978)
• Reconstruction of the credit union building in Mödling (1979)
• Ecclesiastical multi-purpose hall Vienna-Jedlersdorferstrasse (1979-80)
• Rennbahnweg residential buildings, Vienna (1980)
• Ecclesiastical multi-purpose hall, Vienna-Quadenstrasse (1980–81)
• Reconstruction of the city cinema on Schwarzenbergplatz in Vienna (1981)
• Reconstruction of the post office and municipal office in Perchtoldsdorf (1983–85)
• Conversion of the Bibelwerk bookstore, Vienna (1984)

Web links

Commons : IGIRIEN  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The press : “Igirien” and more: on the death of Franz Eberhard Kneissl

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} nextroom : IGIRIEN ; accessed on March 21, 2017
2. ↑ DBZ - Deutsche Bauzeitschrift : Between Marx and Mozart, Coca-Cola and Cyberspace ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on March 21, 2017 
3. ^ Architekturzentrum Wien : The Architekturzentrum Wien commemorates the architect Franz E. Kneissl (OTS0125, Oct. 3, 2011, 11:28 am)
4. ↑ Wiener Wohnen: Hollergasse 12 ; accessed on March 21, 2017
5. ^ Dehio-Handbuch : Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs: Vienna: X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District, A. Schroll, 1996, p. 618