Wilhelm Holzbauer

1945-49 - attended the secondary industrial school in Salzburg
1950-53 - was a student at the master school of Clemens Holzmeister at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he founded an architectural association with his classmates called 'arbeitsgruppe 4'
1956-57 - studied at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in Cambridge
1959 - served as a visiting professor at the University of Manitoba in Canada and Yale University in New Haven
1964 - established his own architectural practice in Vienna (opened a branch in Amsterdam in 1969)
1977-98 - was a professor at the University of Applied Arts (die Angewandte) in Vienna, where he also served as rector (1987-91)

Wilhelm Holzbauer managed to handle extensive projects at the beginning of his career without abandoning modern vocabulary. He was able to enrich it form-wise, embodying seemingly heterogeneous formal innovations, leaving classicizing elements, dividing into scale levels, and adapting well to the surrounding environment, for example in the complex of the Faculty of Natural Sciences in Salzburg (1982-86), which is a sequence of vibrant architectural events. Another motif is the classicizing portico walls, with which, especially in villa constructions, he was able to create a unique residential atmosphere, particularly in his best works (the art collector's house, 1978-81). He seamlessly integrated steel structures and glass into his architecture, embracing high-tech aesthetics (the metro in Vancouver, 1981-86). The last period of large projects (banks in Salzburg, Siemens administrative buildings in Linz, etc.) is marked by a certain depersonalization.