Wolfgang Windbrechtinger

Wolfgang Windbrechtinger (born August 9, 1922 in Ramingstein (Salzburg); † September 12, 2011 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect .

Life

Wolfgang Windbrechtinger studied at the Technical University in Graz . Between 1956 and 1994 he was, together with his wife Traude Windbrechtinger, a freelance architect in Vienna. In 1963 he was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Architecture for the “Volksheuriger Bellevue” .

In 1965 Windbrechtinger was a founding member of the Austrian Society for Architecture and from 1965 to 1968 a board member of the Chamber of Engineers for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland . In the course of the construction work for the first line of the Vienna subway ( U1 ), he was responsible for the uncovering of the Virgil Chapel , which was rediscovered in 1973, and the design of the underground showroom. In 1974, together with Wilhelm Holzbauer , he planned the conversion of Kärntner Strasse in the center of Vienna between the State Opera and Stephansplatz into a pedestrian zone .

Works

(in collaboration with Traude Windbrechtinger)

• Volksheim Kapfenberg, 1958
• Kindergarten and settlement Böhlerwerk, 1959
• Korneuburg Kindergarten, 1962
• Restaurant Bellevue , Vienna, 1963 (demolished 1982)
• Vienna-Hietzing shopping center, 1964
• Kindergartens in Amstetten and Ober-Grafendorf (Lower Austria), 1968
• Wassermannweg housing estate, Vienna, 1992
• Projects for churches and urban planning

Awards

• 1963: Austrian State Prize for Architecture

literature

• Hannes Doblhofer (Ed.): Windbrechtinger: Work, Idea, Lifestyle and Building Conception , on Traude and Wolfgang Windbrechtinger, collection of articles and catalog raisonné, Löcker Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85409-381-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Windbrechtinger in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Der Standard : Architect Wolfgang Windbrechtinger passed away on September 16, 2011