Wilhelm Holzbauer
William Wood Bauer ( born September 3, 1930 in Salzburg) is an Austrian architect.
Life and work
After visiting the Technical Trade School in Salzburg (1945-1949) Wood Bauer studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he was a student in the master class of Prof. Clemens wood master. After his membership in the " Working Group 4" wood Bauer studied from 1956 to 1957 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge (United States). He then taught as a visiting professor until 1959 in Manitoba (Canada) and at Yale University, United States. In 1964 he finally opened an architectural office in Vienna, followed by another in 1969 in Amsterdam. His teaching career began Holzbauer 1977-1998 as a professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna continued 1987 to 1991 he was also rector.
See architecture critic Wooden building as "representative of a " pragmatic " architecture with monumental symbolism, physiognomic conciseness and Mannerist exaggeration ," Wood Bauer sees himself as " a classical architect who always tries to adapt to the situation, none of the various Stömungen of Modern and Post- and yet a bit of everything " in an architecture, " whose roots lie in a pragmatic attitude and not in an ideological. "
Wooden building could rapidly position itself with important orders for private and public clients in the public. The city of Vienna, he influenced significantly by its planning of the pedestrian zone in the Kärntner Straße and by the designs of the Vienna U -Bahn trains, which have also won awards internationally. Again and again made Wooden building through interviews and other media appearances talking point. Of conversation also attended the Architekturwettwerb for the reconstruction of the Kleines Festspielhaus in Salzburg, wood construction had already suggested over the years and it also submitted plans. Wooden building while also relied on his familiarity with the ideas wood master. After violent protests wood builder, who emerged as a second Gereihter from the competition, it finally came to a collaboration between the winner, Francois Valentiny, with wooden farmhouse.
For the Vienna State Opera designed wooden farmhouse in 1999 set the stage for the new production of Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow (director Andrei Şerban, conductor John Eliot Gardiner ), where he co-designed the costumes.
Wooden building is one of the survivors of the sinking of the Andrea Doria.
He has three children from his first marriage with Ursula Wood Bauer and a daughter from his second marriage with the Japanese Mari Izumi- wood farmhouse.
Selected Works
- Parscher parish church to the Precious Blood, Salzburg, 1953-56 ( Working Group 4, with Friedrich Kurrent, Johannes Spalt, Otto Leitner )
- College of St. Joseph Salzburg, 1961-64 ( Working Group 4 )
- Design for the Vienna metro, 1970-1973 (architects group underground, with H. Marschalek, G. Ladstätter, Bernd Gantar )
- Parish Centre Salzburg -St. Vitalis, construction until 1972
- Landhaus Bregenz, 1973, construction 1977 to 1981 ( with others)
- Education St. Virgil, Salzburg, construction until 1976
- Residential Building Residential tomorrow ', Vienna
- Amsterdam City Hall and Opera Amsterdam
- Faculty of Science, University of Salzburg, 1973-86 (architects group University of Salzburg, with Stefan K. Hübner, Georg Ladstätter, Heinz Marschalek, Heinz Ekhart )
- Planning the pedestrian zone in the Kärntner Straße, 1974 ( with Wolfgang Windbrechtinger Inger )
- Office building complex ( IBM) Lassallestraße Vienna / Prater Stern, Vienna
- Andromeda Tower, Vienna, Building 1996-98
- Memorial for all the victims of the Battle of Stalingrad, Volgograd
- Festspielhaus Baden -Baden, construction until 1998
- Ringstrassen galleries building complex, Kärntner Ring Vienna
- Tech Gate Vienna ( with Sepp Frank ), construction 1999-2005
- Gasometer D, Vienna, 1999-2001
- The four new halls of Vienna's Musikverein
- House for Mozart, reconstruction of the Kleines Festspielhaus in Salzburg (together with Francois Valentiny, the competition winner), from 2006
Publications
- Wood Bauer, Wilhelm: Buildings and Projects 1953-85, 1985
- Wood Bauer, Wilhelm: Buildings and Projects 1985-90, 1990
- Achleitner, Friedrich, Wood Bauer, Wilhelm: Buildings and Projects - Buildings and Projects. Stuttgart 1995
- Wood Bauer, Wilhelm: works from the last 5 years of the past millennium. Exhibition Catalogue, University of Applied Arts. Vienna 2000