In the history of building, Ladislaus von Rabcewicz is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Ladislaus von Rabcewicz as Austrian civil engineer.
Ladislaus von Rabcewicz was born at Kungota pri Ptuju in 1893. His recorded nationality is Austria. He trained at Graz University of Technology and TU Wien.
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 civil engineer and university teacher.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
Recognition followed: Wilhelm Exner Medal.
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.
Ladislaus von Rabcewicz died in 1975, aged 82. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Wilhelm Exner Medal
- Trained at Graz University of Technology and TU Wien
