Wolfdietrich Ziesel

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Wolfdietrich Ziesel (born April 20, 1934 in Munich ; † December 22, 2015 ) was an Austrian civil engineer.

biography

Gopher studied after graduating from high school in 1952 in Salzburg Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Vienna (focus on structural engineering) with a diploma in 1957 and received his doctorate 1958th After he was Kurt Klöppel's assistant at the TH Darmstadt , he opened an engineering office in Vienna in 1962.

From 1977 to 2000 he was a university professor and director of the Institute for Statics and Structural Engineering at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

He designed around 700 buildings in Austria and internationally. He worked with many well-known architects ( Coop Himmelblau , Carl Auböck , Ernst Hiesmayr , Hans Hollein , Wilhelm Holzbauer , Clemens Holzmeister , Adolf Krischanitz , Gustav Peichl , Anton Schweighofer ).

In 2004 he received the Cross of Honor for Science and Art , the Golden Decoration of Honor of the State of Vienna (2005), the Adolf Loos Prize in 1994 (for the Hackinger Steg bridge in Vienna), the European Steel Construction Prize in 1976 and the Consulting State Prize in 2002 (for the roofing of the hillside houses of the ruins in Ephesus ).

Projects (selection)

  • Ephesus, protective structure for excavations on hillside house II (architect Häuselmayer)
  • Inner courtyard roofing of the Vienna Historical Museum (architect Manikas)
  • Hackinger Steg, pedestrian bridge over the Wiental in Vienna-Hütteldorf (Architects Henke, Schreieck)
  • Traisen pavilion, exhibition hall St. Pölten (architect Krischanitz)

Fonts

  • Dream Bridges, Springer 2004
  • Construction, design, teaching, Vienna 1982
  • Construction art engineer. The Art of Civil Engineering, Edition Seitenberg, Vienna 1989

literature

  • Klaus Stiglat : Civil engineers and their work , Ernst and Son 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ With essays by Jörg Schlaich , Günther Feuerstein , Otto Kapfinger, among others
personal data
SURNAME Ziesel, Wolfdietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 2015