First Edition 2007-2008
Boris Podrecca
Austria
Born in Beograd in 1940, he graduated in architecture in 1968 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he opened his own studio. Among his works: the Vienna headquarters of the Basler Insurance Company (1990-1993), the Millennium-Tower in Vienna (1995-1999, in association with G. Peichl and R.F. Weber) and, most recently, the Museum of Science and Technology in Beograd (2007). He also designed several exhibitions in major European centres. Since 1988 he is professor at the Stuttgart Technical University and director of the Institute of Architectural Design and Theory of Space. He has taught in several schools of architecture, in Europe and North America.