Friedrich Achleitner
*23. 5. 1930 – Schalchen, Austria
†27. 3. 2019 – Wien, Austria
Literatura
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Biography
Friedrich Achleitner was an Austrian poet, writer, critic, and architectural theorist. He came from a family of farmers and millers in Upper Austria. Towards the end of World War II, their house was severely damaged. After graduating from high school, he moved to Vienna, where he studied architecture from 1950 to 1953 under Professor Clemens Holzmeister at the Academy of Fine Arts. He subsequently collaborated with architect Johann Gsteu, with whom he designed the then controversial renovation of the interior of the parish church in Hetzendorf from 1956 to 1958. At Emil Pirchan's master school, he also studied scenography.
In 1958, he left architectural practice and worked as a freelance writer. His style is often associated with the so-called Wiener Gruppe (Vienna Group), which was an island of creative freedom in the conservative waters of post-war Austria, where radical experiments were conducted with both words and live action. From 1962 to 1972, he wrote architectural criticism for the newspaper Die Presse.
For twenty years (1963-83), he taught the history of architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts and later led the Department of History and Theory of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts (die Angewandte) in Vienna until his retirement (1983-98).
In 2000 (on the occasion of Achleitner's seventieth birthday), the city of Vienna purchased his archive consisting of 25,000 index cards, 66,500 negatives, 37,800 positives, 250 maps, and 1,030 books, and donated it to the Vienna AzW to establish a database of Austrian modern architecture.
From 1965 to 2010, he worked on a three-part (five-volume) publication documenting Austrian architecture throughout the 20th century. The intended fourth volume was left by Achleitner for the younger generation.
Friedrich Achleitner was an Austrian poet, writer, critic, and architectural theorist. He came from a family of farmers and millers in Upper Austria. Towards the end of World War II, their house was severely damaged. After graduating from high school, he moved to Vienna, where he studied architecture from 1950 to 1953 under Professor Clemens Holzmeister at the Academy of Fine Arts. He subsequently collaborated with architect Johann Gsteu, with whom he designed the then controversial renovation of the interior of the parish church in Hetzendorf from 1956 to 1958. At Emil Pirchan's master school, he also studied scenography.
In 1958, he left architectural practice and worked as a freelance writer. His style is often associated with the so-called Wiener Gruppe (Vienna Group), which was an island of creative freedom in the conservative waters of post-war Austria, where radical experiments were conducted with both words and live action. From 1962 to 1972, he wrote architectural criticism for the newspaper Die Presse.
For twenty years (1963-83), he taught the history of architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts and later led the Department of History and Theory of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts (die Angewandte) in Vienna until his retirement (1983-98).
In 2000 (on the occasion of Achleitner's seventieth birthday), the city of Vienna purchased his archive consisting of 25,000 index cards, 66,500 negatives, 37,800 positives, 250 maps, and 1,030 books, and donated it to the Vienna AzW to establish a database of Austrian modern architecture.
From 1965 to 2010, he worked on a three-part (five-volume) publication documenting Austrian architecture throughout the 20th century. The intended fourth volume was left by Achleitner for the younger generation.
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