Clemens Holzmeister practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Clemens Holzmeister as Austrian architect and stage designer (1886–1983).
Clemens Holzmeister was born in 1886. His recorded nationality is Brazil.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect, university teacher and teacher.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
Recognition followed: Ring of Honour of the City of Vienna, Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Austrian Decoration for Science and Art and Grand Officer, Special Class of the Order of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria.
That the work was built in Brazil shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Clemens Holzmeister died in 1983, aged 97. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Ring of Honour of the City of Vienna
- Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
