Ottokar Uhl

Ottokar Uhl (born March 2, 1931 in Wolfsberg in Carinthia ; † November 3, 2011 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect and university professor.

Life

Ottokar Uhl moved to Vienna in 1940 and graduated from the Federal Trade School in Mödling in the building construction department in 1949 . In 1950 he studied briefly at the Technical University of Vienna , then in Lois Welzenbacher's master class at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . He completed his diploma in 1953 with Lois Welzenbacher with a thesis on the Basel Cultural Center. In 1957 he took part in the International Summer Academy Salzburg with Konrad Wachsmann , subject: "Investigation of the influence on the industrialization of building: Salzburghalle - development of a knot system".

In 1973 he succeeded Egon Eiermann as professor for building planning and design at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Karlsruhe Fridericiana .

His diverse projects focus on sacred buildings after the Second Vatican Council (Demontable Church Siemensstrasse, Vienna, 1960–64; Church and Pastoral Care Center Taegu, South Korea; 1964–66; Montagekirche Kundratstrasse , Vienna, 1966–67; Catholic Community Center St. Judas Thaddäus, Karlsruhe-Neureut, 1980–89) and in participatory housing (residential complex “Wohnen morgen”, Hollabrunn, 1971–76; Festgasse, Vienna 16, 1973–83; residential building “Wohnen mit Kindern”, Vienna, 1985–90; residential home BROT, Vienna, 1985-90). Its architecture is particularly concerned with participation and interdisciplinary, process-oriented planning.

After his retirement in 1994, he was visiting professor for liturgical science at the University of Vienna in 1995 .

Uhl was buried at the Kalksburger Friedhof in Vienna.

Drafts and realizations (selection)

Living tomorrow in Hollabrunn (Lower Austria)

Church of St. Judas Thaddäus in Neureut (Karlsruhe)

• 1962–1964: Assembly Church Siemensstrasse Vienna
• 1963–1964: Memorial Chapel on the Schlösslberg
• 1967: Assembly Church in Kundratstrasse
• 1980–1984: Housing complex living with children

Awards

• 1963: Austrian State Prize for Architecture for the demountable Siemensstrasse church
• 1968: Austrian builder award 1968 for chapel and study rooms at Melk Abbey
• 1976: Cardinal Innitzer Prize for Natural Sciences
• 1985: Grand Austrian Housing Award for the residential complex living with children
• 1991: Austrian builder award for the BROT community residence in Vienna
• 1991: Hugo Häring Prize (BDA) for the St. Judas Thaddäus community center
• 1991: Gold Medal of Honor of the Federal Capital Vienna
• 1993: Austrian Eco Prize for Architecture
• 1996: Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize
• 2001: Gold Medal of Honor of the State of Vienna
• 2007: Honorary doctorate from the Vienna University of Technology

Fonts (selection)

• with Friedrich Achleitner : Lois Welzenbacher . 1889-1955. with 325 illustrations, Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 1968.
• Church building as a process in: Günter Rombold (Ed.): Building churches for the future , Herder Wien 1969.
• Opposites. Architecture as dialogue , selected texts from four decades, Picus Wien 2003, ISBN 3-85452-129-4 .

literature

• Conrad Lienhardt (ed.): Ottokar Uhl - work, theory, perspectives . Catalog book for an exhibition on the World Wide Web, Schnell & Steiner Regensburg 2000, ISBN 3-7954-1329-X .
• Friedrich Achleitner, Michael Athanassiadis, Herbert Muck : Ottokar Uhl - architect and enabler . Lectures in the Vienna City Hall on March 2, 2001, Picus Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85452-390-4 .
• Architekturzentrum Wien (ed.) With Christa Kamleithner, Johannes Porsch, Bernhard Steger: OTTOKAR UHL ; Book for the exhibition Ottokar Uhl - According to the rules of architecture in the Architekturzentrum Wien 03.03. – 13.06.2005; Catalog of works, research projects, publications, lectures, teaching, participation in exhibitions, collaboration, developed by Bernhard Steger; Anton Pustet Salzburg 2005, ISBN 3-7025-0508-3 .
• Bernhard Steger: From building - to the life and work of Ottokar Uhl . Löcker, Vienna 2007, ISBN 3-85409-454-X . (also dissertation, TU Wien 2005, full text )
• Bernhard Steger (ed.): Themes of architecture eg Ottokar Uhl . Löcker, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85409-588-0
• Joseph Masheck (Ed.): Ottokar Uhl: A Dossier . Occasional Papers in Architectural Art 2, Edinburgh College of Art, 2009.

Web links

Commons : Ottokar Uhl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ottokar Uhl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ottokar Uhl - Werk.Theorie.Perspektiven - Web exhibition on the sacred building Ottokar Uhls
• Ottokar Uhl. In: arch INFORM .
• For the 70th from Professor Ottokar Uhl with curriculum vitae, works, awards
• Architect Ottokar Uhl has died. Obituary of the Wiener Zeitung .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ University of Karlsruhe online presence ( Memento from June 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) CASE STUDY: SAR METHOD: OTTOKAR UHL “LIVING TOMORROW” HOLLABRUNN (AUSTRIA) 1972–76
2. ↑ Online presence of the Austrian Research Foundation ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2007 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. Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize winner since 1988 
3. ↑ TU Wien: Honorary doctorates ( memento of the original from October 20, 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. . Retrieved March 26, 2015.