Peter Pelican
Peter Pelikan (born October 29, 1941 in St. Pölten , Lower Austria ) is an Austrian architect who has stood out primarily through his collaboration with artists who are interested in structural design.
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Pelikan studied architecture at the Technical University, today Vienna University of Technology , and graduated with a degree in engineering . In 1972 he entered the service of the City of Vienna and worked in Municipal Department 19, Urban Design. Since 1980, Pelikan has dedicated itself to the architectural realization and participation in architectural projects by Friedensreich Hundertwasser , but also other unorthodox building projects. One of the most important projects that Pelikan has been involved in planning since 1981 is the Hundertwasser House in Vienna.
Projects realized with Hundertwasser include the Kunsthaus Wien (1989–91), the Thermendorf Rogner Bad Blumau (1990–97), the redesign of the Bad Fischau motorway service station (1989–90) and, in Germany, the Hundertwasserhaus in Bad Soden am Taunus (from 1990), the day care center Heddernheim -Nord (near Frankfurt am Main) as well as the Green Citadel of Magdeburg (the latter together with Heinz M. Springmann ) and the " Kuchlbauer Tower " in Abensberg . Pelikan also planned the market hall in Altenrhein SG in Switzerland. Pelikan's loyal and empathetic collaboration with Hundertwasser, based on idealistic agreement, earned him the nickname ' FIFTY WATER' , which was mockingly meant .
Pelikan also worked for other artists with neo-decorative "anti-rationalist" architectural concepts, such as Arik Brauer or Gottfried Kumpf . For example, he offered Arik Brauer technical support when he was commissioned in 1991 to artistically design a new residential building to be built by the Gesiba non-profit housing association in Vienna's Gumpendorfer Strasse. The residential building called Arik-Brauer-Haus was handed over to its intended use on April 22, 1994 by the Mayor of Vienna, Helmut Zilk .
Gottfried Kumpf helped Pelikan from 1991–1992 in the design and construction of a service area with an attached hotel on the Austrian A4 motorway near Göttlesbrunn .
Among other things, Pelikan took full responsibility for redesigning the living and working place of the last blacksmith in the Lower Austrian wine-growing community of Schönberg am Kamp into a cultural and tourism center. The building, left to decay, was bought and revitalized by the community.
The KunstHausAbensberg, a project he had planned, opened in 2014 by the same brewery owner, for whom he was already building the Kuchlbauer tower - still with Hundertwasser.
Pelikan's ecological-decorative interventions, which can be assigned to postmodernism in the broadest sense , met with a rather critical response in specialist circles, but generally positive feedback in circles of the population.
Individual evidence
- ^ See Gerd Bacher, Karl Schwarzenberg, Josef Taus, Josef Krainer (eds): Location Austria. About culture, economy and politics in change, Graz, Styria 1990, p. 247.
- ↑ Anja Witzke in the Donaukurier on June 12, 2014: Architecture must be fun , accessed on December 21, 2015
literature
- Robert Schediwy: Hundertwasser's houses - documents of a controversy about contemporary architecture , Vienna 1999, interview with Peter and Erika Pelikan, p. 147ff.
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| SURNAME | Pelican, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Polten |