Wolf Dieter Prix

In 1968 he co-founded the architects' cooperative Coop Himmelb(l)au, which has an international reputation as an important representative of deconstructivism.

He went to the museum with him and asked: “Why don’t we finish the Tower of Babel?”[7][8] The visit of the priory La Tourette (designed by Le Corbusier), located near Lyon, France, was his inspiration to study architecture.

[10] In 1968 he founded the Viennese architects' cooperative Himmelb(l)au together with Helmut Swiczinsky and Michael Holzer.

At the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) he took over the Harvey S. Perloff Chair in 1999 and a visiting professorship in 2001.

[15] From 1995 to 1997, Wolf Prix was a member of the architecture advisory board at the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research.