Boris Podrecca

Boris Podrecca (born 30 January 1940 in Belgrade) is a Slovene-Italian architect and urban designer living in Vienna, Austria.

He took a new, more tolerant attitude towards historical architectural forms with some of his early works, such as the neuro-physiological institute at Starhemberg Palace (1982), He was born in Belgrade, Serbia (then in Yugoslavia), to a Slovene father and a Serb mother.

After World War II, the family moved to Trieste, Italy, where Boris attended a Slovene language elementary school.

From 1979 to 1981 he worked as an assistant at Technical University of Munich and later, as a guest lecturer at Lausanne, Paris, Venice, Philadelphia, London, Harvard-Cambridge, Boston and Vienna.

From 1988 until 2006 he was full professor at the Technical University of Stuttgart and Director of the Institute of Architectural Design and Theory of Space.

Tartini Square, Piran, Slovenia
Piazza XXIV Maggio, Cormons, Italy