Volker Giencke (born 27 June 1947) in Wolfsberg is an Austrian architect.
Volker Giencke studied architecture and philosophy in Graz and Vienna.
Collaborated with Merete Mattern, the landscape-architect Raimund Herms and Günther Domenig.
Professor for Architectural Design at the Institute of Design, University of Innsbruck, since 1992, where he founded ./studio3 - the Institute for Experimental Architecture in 2000. International teaching assignments and lectures: Davenport Professor at the Yale School of Architecture/New Haven, External Examiner at the University College London - Bartlett School of Architecture, at the Rizvi College Bombay and at the Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Personal exhibitions in the Forum Stadtpark Graz 1976, Liederhalle Stuttgart 1979, Künstlerhaus Graz 1981, Steirischer Herbst 1984, Biennale de Paris 1985, Academy of Arts Berlin, 1989, Expo '92 Seville, Biennale di Venezia 1992 + 93, Haus der Architektur Graz 1989, 1992 + 1994; Treiber Museum Graz 1998; travelling exhibition Brussels - New York - Los Angeles - Sydney - Berlin - Vienna etc., NYAA New York Academy of Art 1999, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp 1999, Kunsthaus Mürzzuschlag 2002, RIBA Royal Institute of British Architects 2002, Architectural Biennale Venice 2004, Basilica Palladiana Vicenza - Dedalo-Minosse 2006, Architekturzentrum Wien (AZW) “Architektur in Österreich im 20. u.