born 1934, lives and works in Vienna.

Hans Hollein studied at the Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, Masterclass for Architecture Prof. C. Holzmeister, Diploma 1956; at IIT, Chicago (1958-59) Architecture and City Planning and at the University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) 1960.

Hans Hollein was professor for Architecture at the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf 1967 - 1976, he was professor for Design from 1976 to 1986 and professor for Architecture from 1976 until 2002 at the University of Applied Art in Vienna where he also acted as Dean of the Architecture Department from 1995 to 1999. He was guest professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, at the Yale University in New Haven and at the Ohio State University in Columbus. From 1978 - 1990 he was the Austrian Commissioner for the Art Biennale Venice and from 1991 - 2000 also the Austrian Commissioner for the Architecture Biennale in Venice which he chaired as General Director in 1996.

Among his most significant pubic buildings are the Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach, 1972-82; the Museum of Glass and Ceramics in Teheran, 1977-1978; the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt, 1982-91; the Exhibition Hall and Museum of Lower Austria in St. Pölten, Austria 1992-2002; "Vulcania" Vulcano Museum in the Auvergne, 1994-2002; the new entrance of the Albertina Museum in Vienna, 2001-2003; the public schools at Köhlergasse, 1979-90 and Donaucity, 1993-99 both in Vienna as well as the until now not realized projects for the Guggenheim Museum in Salzburg (since 1988) and the Berliner Kulturforum (1983 - 85).

Other important buildings are the Haas-Haus, 1985-90 - a building in the very center of Vienna; the Banco Santander, Madrid, 1987-93; the Generali/ Media Tower in Vienna, 1994-2001; the headquarters of the Interbank in Lima, Peru, 1996-2001; the Austrian Embassy in Berlin, 1997-2001; the Centrum Bank in Vaduz, 1997-2003; the Saturn Tower in Donaucity Vienna, 2002-2004 as well as early influential buildings such as Retti Candle Shop in Vienna, 1965; the Richard L. Feigen Gallery in New York, 1967-69; the Jewellry Shops Schullin in Vienna, 1972 - 1974 and 1981 - 1983 and the Austrian Travel Agencies in Vienna, 1976-78.

mong his current projects are high-rise buildings in Vienna such as "Gate 2-Vectigal", 2002- ; the Monte Laa -PORR-Towers on the Laaerberg, 2001-; Office Building "Stadtpark, 2003 – under construction since 2006 as well as office- and residential buidings in San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy, 2003 , "Sea Mio" housing, 6 highrise apartment buildings, Taipei, 2004 – under construction and "E- Ton Solar" Headquarters, Tainan, Taipei, 2005 –building permit.

Hans Hollein hat realized several exhibition concepts and -designs, among them "MANtransFORMS" at the Cooper Hewitt Museum New York 1976, "Türken vor Wien" (1983) und "Dream and Reality" (1985) at the Künstlerhaus and the Historische Museum der Stadt Wien, also "Sensing the Future - the Architect as Seismograph" at the sixth Archictecture Biennale in Venice 1996. "Sculptural Architecture in Austria" was on show at the NAMOC – National Museum of China in Beijing during August 2006 and will be exhibited in October/November 2006 at the Guangdong Museum of Art in Guangzhou.

He developed product design for numerous companies among them Wilhelmi, Bösendorfer, Knoll, Alessi, Wittmann, Backhausen, Hirsch, Z-Sparkasse, Cleto Munari, Schullin and Köchert.

Works by Hans Hollein are in the most significant collections among them the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; as well as the collection of the Albertina in Vienna. He had several solo exhibitions as artist and/or architect. Among the most important are the exhibition at the Galerie St. Stephan (with Walter Pichler) in Vienna 1963, at the Museum of Modern Art New York (with Walter Pichler and Raimund Abraham) 1968, at the Städtischen Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach 1970, at the Austrian Pavilion at the Art Biennale in Venice 1972, at the Centre Georges Pompidou Paris 1987, at the Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts Wien 1987, at the Nationalgalerie Berlin 1987/88, at the Sezon Museum of Art Tokyo 1989 and at the Historische Museum der Stadt Wien 1995. He was particpant in numerous group exhibitions, including the documenta in Kassel 1977 as well as 1987.At the Xth Architecture Biennale Venice 2006 he presents the "Aircraft-carrier" in the Austrian Pavilion.

Hans Hollein has received numerous awards among them the Pritzker Architecture Prize,1985; the Reynolds Memorial Award, 1966 and 1984; the Prize of the City of Vienna for Architecture, 1974; the Grand Austrian State Awards, 1983, the Austrian Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst, 1990; the Goldene Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um das Land Wien, 1994 and the Grosse Verdienstkreuz des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1997. He is Officier de la Légion d'Honeur de la République Française and Commendatore dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana. 2004 he receive the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture, New York.