Ernst Plischke
Ernst Anton Plischke ( born June 26, 1903 in Klosterneuburg near Vienna, † 23 May 1992, Vienna) was an Austrian architect.
Life
Plischke attended from 1904 to 1914 the primary school and from 1914 to 1918 the Lower Austrian secondary school and high school in Klosterneuburg. Subsequently, he studied from 1919 to 1923 at the School of Applied Arts in Vienna and from 1923 to 1926 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Oskar Strnad, Josef Frank and Peter Behrens. In 1926 he completed his studies in the master class of Behrens with a diploma. From 1924 he worked in the studio of Heinrich Schmid and Hermann Aichinger as well as a construction manager in his father's Anton Plischke in Traismauer. He also worked from 1925 to 1926 in the studio of Vienna Oberbaurat Gottlieb Michael. Official and educational tours led by Plischke Dusseldorf, Greece and Istanbul. In 1928 he founded his own architectural office. In 1932 he received his power to civilian architects. In 1935 he was awarded the State Prize for Architecture.
Plischke stayed several times in New York, where he worked in the studios of Ely Jacques Kahn and Albert Buchman. In March 1939, he emigrated to Wellington, New Zealand, where he worked for the Housing Ministry as a community planner. After the war, he and Cedric Harold Firth in Wellington studio Plischke & Firth, which existed until 1959. After that he worked in a construction office with Bob Fantl. In 1963 he returned to Vienna, he was appointed as a full university professor of architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Plischke applies, inter alia through its emigrants Biography as one of the most famous Austrian architect. His often cubic constructions are characterized firstly by a lightness and transparency, which is the classic Austrian architecture very far. Secondly, he has the international style enriched by a more complex repertoire of forms. As a representative of a humane architecture but Plischke studied his buildings always in connection with the needs of the client and the local context.
In addition to the architecture Plischke was also successful as a furniture designer.
His grave is in the cemetery Gersthoferstrasse (Group 2, Series 7, No. 67).
Works (selection)
Buildings and Projects
Writings
- Ernst Plischke: Design and Living. Wellington 1947.
- Ernst Plischke: From human in the new building. Vienna / Munich 1969.
- Ernst Plischke: A life with architecture. Vienna 1989.