Rudolf Weber (architect, 1933)

Rudolf Felix Weber (born June 15, 1933 in Cologne , Germany; † May 30, 2017 in Vienna , Austria) was an Austrian architect and professor of building construction at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He worked in partnership or as a partner with Gustav Peichl .

Life

Weber studied from 1954 to 1957 Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Clemens Holzmeister . He then continued his education in the USA at MIT and at the University of California on a grant from the Commonwealth Fund New York , where he graduated in 1959 with a Master of Architecture. After returning to Austria in 1960, he began to work as an employee in the architectural firm Gustav Peichl, which he had founded five years earlier. In 1970 he founded the architecture group Atelier 18 together with Engelbert Eder, Alfred Viktor Pal and Reiner Wieden. During this time Weber was involved in the Ernst-Theumer-Hof in Vienna-Floridsdorf or in the Marchstrasse branch of the Zentralsparkasse . In 1978 he won second prize in the international competition for the National Library in Tehran .

Since 1991 Weber worked in partnership with Gustav Peichl in the Atelier Peichl & Partner and from 2002 as a partner in Peichl & Partner ZT GmbH. Many important buildings were built during this time, such as the Millennium Tower , the tallest building in Vienna until the DC Tower was completed . This was the first building to be implemented as a town-in-town concept in Austria. Furthermore, Rudolf F. Weber was involved in the establishment of the caricature museum in Krems (2001) and the ORF regional studio Lower Austria (1998).

Parallel to his professional activity, Weber worked from 1973 to 1979 as an assistant in Gustav Peichl's master class for architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts and from 1980 to 2000 he was professor for structural engineering at this university.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst-Theumer-Hof in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
2. ↑ spiluttini.azw.at
3. ↑ immobilien-magazin.at
4. ^ Liesbeth Waechter-Böhm: Caricature Museum: Rudolf F. Weber, Gustav Peichl - Krems ad Donau (A) - 2001. September 14, 2003, accessed on July 4, 2017 . 
5. ^ The ORF Lower Austria. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 22, 2017 ; Retrieved July 4, 2017 . 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.