Ernst Hiesmayr practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Ernst Hiesmayr as Austrian architect (1920-2006).
Ernst Hiesmayr was born at Innsbruck in 1920. His recorded nationality is Austria.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
He is recorded as architect and university teacher.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
Recognition followed: Great Golden Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria and City of Vienna Prize for Architecture.
That the work was built in Austria shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Ernst Hiesmayr died in 2006, aged 86. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Great Golden Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
- City of Vienna Prize for Architecture
