Wilhelm Kainrath

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Wilhelm Kainrath (born December 2, 1939 in Vienna ; † May 10, 1986 on the Rax ) was an Austrian architect and urban planner .

Life

Kainrath attended the HTL in Krems an der Donau and graduated with a diploma in architecture from the Technical University of Vienna in 1965 . He then worked in London for two years planning New Towns . He then returned to Vienna, worked as an assistant to Ernst Hiesmayr for two years and worked as a freelancer from 1972 to 1975. From 1971 Kainrath took part in the local political program work of the SPÖ and primarily dealt with issues of urban planning. He was a critical social democrat in the circle of Egon Matzner and Herbert Tieber and was considered an outsider in Viennese urban planning, who advocated gentle urban renewal and greening of the Wilhelminian city ​​structures early on and found positive media coverage. Kainrath is one of the fathers of the Planquadrat garden , a garden courtyard in the most densely built-up part of Vienna, which has remained an exception, however, and referred to the positive effects of a strictly regulated housing market with regard to the avoidance of social segregation and the resulting slum formation.

Kainrath, sponsored by Helmut Zilk , worked in the municipal department 18 , then in staff functions (club of the SPÖ municipal councils, then the coordination office of the municipal administration). He is considered to be the defining personality behind the Vienna Urban Development Plan (STEP) 1984, but died in 1986 in a mountain accident on the Rax. The 1988 work Change the City with numerous posthumously published texts by Kainrath is dedicated to his memory.

Fonts

  • (Co-author :) Projekt Planquadrat 4th attempt at a “gentle” urban renewal . On behalf of d. Magistrate d. City of Vienna, MA 19. Krämer: Stuttgart et al. 1980.
  • Urban renewal as a constant challenge. Experiences and prospects . Pospisil: Vienna 1983.
  • (Co-author :) Everyday urban renewal. Three centuries of building and planning in a suburb of Vienna . Löcker: Wien et al. 1984.
  • Changes the city: Texts 1971–1986 . Edited by Elisabeth Binder et al., Planen und Gestalten series . Picus: Vienna 1988.

literature

  • Heinz Dolanski: 35 years of area support. A contribution to gentle urban renewal in Vienna . Diploma thesis, University of Vienna 2009 ( online version ; PDF; 4.8 MB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Acceptance speech by Rotraud A. Perners for the award of the Golden Medal of Honor of the City of Vienna ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2010 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 June 7, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.perner.info
  2. ↑ profile . Volume 19, issues 18-30 / 1988, p. 102
  3. ↑ See W. Kainrath 1982 in the Austrian Journal for Political Science No. 82/4
personal data
SURNAME Kainrath, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1986
Place of death Rax