奧地利藍天組建筑設計事務所

沃爾夫?狄?普瑞克斯 (Wolf D. Prix ) Photo: ? Manfred Klimek

奧地利藍天組建筑設計事務所

沃爾夫?狄?普瑞克斯 (Wolf D. Prix ) Photo: ? Manfred Klimek

COOP HIMMELB(L)AU

沃爾夫?狄?普瑞克斯（Wolf D. Prix），1942年出生于維也納，是藍天組建筑設計事務所創建人之一，同時也是藍天組的設計總監及首席執行官，先后在維也納技術大學、倫敦建筑學會和洛杉磯南加利福尼亞建筑學院（SCI-Arc）學習建筑。

此外，沃爾夫?狄?普瑞克斯還是奧地利聯邦建筑和工程顧問成員、德國BDA榮譽成員、英國皇家建筑師協會（RIBA）會員、古巴圣克拉拉建筑師協會會員和美國建筑學會會員（FAIA）。

沃爾夫?狄?普瑞克斯獲獎無數，其中包括奧地利國家大獎和奧地利科學與藝術榮譽獎章。同時，他還是奧地利藝術參議院和歐洲自然科學與藝術學院的終身會員。從2014年秋至今，一直擔任羅馬教廷藝術院的主席。

他先后被兩所大學——阿根廷布宜諾斯艾利斯的巴勒莫大學（2001年）和羅馬尼亞的布加勒斯特建筑技術大學（2014年）授予榮譽博士學位。2015年，他被倫敦建筑學會授予榮譽證書。

沃爾夫?狄?普瑞克斯被認為是解構主義建筑運動的發起人之一。1988年藍天組受邀參加在紐約MoMA舉辦的“解構主義建筑”展，在國際化的道路上又邁出了一大步。多年以來，沃爾夫?狄?普瑞克斯和藍天組榮獲了眾多國際建筑大獎。

藍天組于1968年在維也納創立，由沃爾夫?狄?普瑞克斯擔任CEO和設計總監，主要從事藝術、建筑、城市規劃和設計。1988年，其第二工作室在美國洛杉磯開業。藍天組目前共有員工50至150人，來自19個不同的國家。該團隊已經在許多國家承建了博物館、音樂廳、科學及辦公建筑以及住宅建筑等項目。目前，藍天組正致力于開展歐洲、亞洲和中東地區的項目。

藍天組建筑事務所最有名的國際項目包括：維也納Falkestrasse閣樓改造、德累斯頓多功能UFA影視中心、慕尼黑寶馬世界、美國俄亥俄州阿克倫藝術博物館、美國洛杉磯市中心9號高中演藝中心、韓國釜山電影中心、中國大連國際會議中心和丹麥奧爾堡音樂廳。最近，法國里昂匯流博物館和德國法蘭克福/美因河歐洲中央銀行（ECB）兩大項目也已經完工。

Wolf D. Prix, born in 1942 in Vienna, is co-founder, Design Principal and CEO of COOP HIMMELB(L) AU. He studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology, the Architectural Association of London as well as at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles.

Amongst others, Wolf D. Prix is a member of the ?sterreichische Bundeskammer der Architekten und Ingenieurkonsulenten, the Bund Deutscher Architekten, Germany (BDA), the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the Architectural Association Santa Clara, Cuba, and Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture (FAIA).

Wolf D. Prix received numerous awards including the Great Austrian State Award and the Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art. He is permanent member of the Austrian Art Senate and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts as well as chairman of the Curia for Art since autumn 2014. Two Universities have conferred him the Doctorate Honoris Causa: The Universidad de Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2001) and the “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest, Romania (2014). In 2015 he was awarded an Honorary Diploma of the Architectural Association of London.

Wolf D. Prix is counted among the originators of the deconstructivist architecture movement. COOP HIMMELB(L)AU had its international breakthrough with the invitation to the exhibition ?Deconstructivist Architecture“ at MoMA New York in 1988. Over the years Wolf D. Prix/ COOP HIMMELB(L)AU was awarded with numerous international architecture awards.

COOP HIMMELB(L)AU was founded in Vienna in 1968 and has since then been operating under the direction of CEO and design principal Wolf D. Prix in the fields of art, architecture, urban planning, and design. Another branch of the firm was opened in the United States in 1988 in Los Angeles. COOP HIMMELB(L)AU currently employs between 50 and 150 people from 19 different countries. In numerous countries the team has realized museums, concert halls, science and office buildings as well as residential buildings. Presently COOP HIMMELB(L)AU is working on various projects in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

The company’s most well-known international projects include the Falkestrasse attic conversion in Vienna, the multifunctional UFA Cinema Center in Dresden, the BMW Welt in Munich, the Akron Art Museum in Ohio, the Central Los Angeles Area High School #9 for the Visual and Performing Arts, the Busan Cinema Center in Korea and the Dalian International Conference Center in China and the House of Music in Aalborg, Denmark. Recently have been completed the Musée des Confluences in Lyon, France, and the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt/Main, Germany.