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1.6. SAT 6:00 ORANGERY |  OPENING SPEECH  |  Wolf D. Prix, born in Vienna in 1942, a co-founder, Design Principal and CEO of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU.

Wolf D. Prix studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology, the Architectural Association of London, and the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles.

Wolf D. Prix von COOP HIMMELB(L)AU hält die Festrede

Most formative among his many international teaching positions was his tenure at the University of Applied Arts Vienna: from 1993 to 2011 he was Professor for Architecture (Studio Prix), and stepped down from his position as vice chancellor of the Institute of Architecture in 2012.
He taught as a visiting professor at the Architectural Association in London in 1984 and at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1990. From 1985 to 1995, Wolf D. Prix was active as Adjunct Professor at the SCI-Arc in Los Angeles. In 1998 he was a faculty member of Columbia University in New York. In 1999, Wolf D. Prix was awarded the Harvey S. Perloff Professorship at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). In 2001, he served as adjunct professor at UCLA and became a Doctor Honoris Causa de la Universidad de Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
In 2002, Wolf D. Prix was made Officier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres and was also awarded the gold medal for merits to the federal state of Vienna. He received in 2004 the Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Architectural Education for his commitment to teaching and training and was awarded with the Jencks Award:
Visions Built prize for his major contribution to the theory and practice of architecture in 2008. A year later, Federal President Dr. Heinz Fischer bestowed the Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art on Wolf D. Prix for his outstanding creative achievements. In 2011 he was the first architect to be conferred the title of an Honorary Citizen by the City of Busan, South Korea.
From 1995 to 1997, Wolf D. Prix was a member of the architectural committee in the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts. He is a member of the Austrian Art Senate, of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, as well as of the Advisory Committee for Building Culture. Furthermore, Wolf D. Prix belongs to the Architectural Association Austria, the Association of German Architects (BDA) in Germany, the Architectural Association Santa Clara in Cuba, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the Chamber of Architects Île de France and the Architectural Association Italy.
The work of Wolf D. Prix has been published in numerous books and his architectural designs have been featured in many museums and collections worldwide. In 2006, he was the commissioner for the Austrian contribution for the 10th International Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. You find more information on Wolf D Prix on his website.

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After the opening speech and the premiere of Atlas - Inseln der Utopie, the Forberg-Schneider Foundation will present the Belmont Prize 2013 for contemporary music to the director Sabrina Hölzer.
The Forberg-Schneider Foundation has committed itself to the encouragement of extraordinary artistic achievements, thereby attracting public attention to these accomplishments. The Belmont Prize honours innovation, imagination and courage and not the retention of the status quo. The prize owes its name to the fateful location in Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice”: in adherence to the quotation from the play: “Who chooses me, must give and hazard all he hath”, the Belmont Prize honours the risk in the struggle against mere conventions – a risk equally divided between givers and recipients.
The director Sabrina Hölzer fulfils these requirements through her impressive achievements: her staged realisation of musical works demonstrates her extraordinary powers of imagination in highlighting the innate message of these works. At the same time, her delight in experimentation is not an end in itself, but a “genuine experiment”.
The Belmont Prize has a value of 20 000 € and is therefore one of the most generously endowed prizes for artistic creation in Europe.

OPENING CEREMONY - Orangerie Herrenhausen
Datum: 01.06.2013
Uhrzeit: 18:00 bis 19:00
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