Coop Himmelb(l)au

[1][2] Coop Himmelb(l)au was established in 1968 by Wolf D. Prix, Helmut Swiczinsky and Michael Holzer in Vienna and has been active in the fields of architecture, urban planning, design and art ever since.

The architecture studio Coop Himmelb(l)au is now run by Wolf D. Prix, Harald Krieger, Karolin Schmidbaur and project partners.

The group's works were featured in the Museum of Modern Art's Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition in 1988, curated by Philip Johnson and Mark Wigley.

World-renowned institutions such as the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (MAK) and the Centre Pompidou show works by Coop Himmelb(l)au in their permanent exhibitions.

In In the same year Coop Himmelb(l)au was present at the 8th Architecture Biennale in Venice with the BMW Welt projects and a design for the new World Trade Center.

At the 11th Architecture Biennale in Venice, Coop Himmelb(l)au was represented with two contributions: Astroballon 1969 Revisited – Feedback Space in the Arsenale and Brain City Lab in the Italian Pavilion.