Boris Podrecca | |
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| Born | (1940-01-30)January 30, 1940 (age 86) |
| Occupations | Architect and urban designer |
Boris Podrecca (born 30 January 1940 inBelgrade) is aSlovene-Italianarchitect andurban designer living inVienna,Austria. Podrecca is considered by some critics a pioneer ofpostmodernism. He took a new, more tolerant attitude towards historical architectural forms with some of his early works, such as the neuro-physiological institute atStarhemberg Palace (1982),
He was born inBelgrade,Serbia (then inYugoslavia), to aSlovene father and aSerb mother. His father was a Slovene immigrant from theItalian border region known asJulian March (Venezia Giulia), who had fled to theKingdom of Yugoslavia to escape persecution from theItalian Fascist regime. His original Slovene surname, Podreka, had beenItalianized to Podrecca in the early 1930s. AfterWorld War II, the family moved toTrieste, Italy, where Boris attended aSlovene language elementary school.
In the 1960s, he moved toVienna to study architecture at theUniversity of Technology, where he graduated in 1968 with ProfessorRoland Rainer. From 1979 to 1981 he worked as an assistant atTechnical University of Munich and later, as a guest lecturer atLausanne,Paris,Venice,Philadelphia,London,Harvard-Cambridge,Boston and Vienna. From 1988 until 2006 he was full professor at theTechnical University of Stuttgart and Director of the Institute of Architectural Design and Theory of Space. He is a foreign member of theSerbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Boris Podrecca became famous with the exhibition of the work of the architectCarlo Scarpa in the church of Chiesa della Carita at the 1984Venice Biennale and later the Villes d'Eaux exhibition in Paris. He was also responsible for the exhibition of the work ofJože Plečnik in thePompidou Centre in Paris (1986). As a leading exhibition designer, he set up the Biedermeier (Vienna, 1987), Bismarck, Prussia, Germany and Europe (Berlin, 1990) and One Hundred Years of Austria exhibitions (1996).[1]
