Boris Podrecca

Boris Podrecca spent his childhood in Trieste. He studied sculpture in Venice and architecture in Vienna, where he moved in the 1960s and graduated in 1968. The movement of the varied paths he has taken in his life is reflected in his archi-cultural work. Boris Podrecca lives and works in Vienna and Venice. Guest professorships in Lausanne, Paris, Venice, Philadelphia, London, Vienna, Harvard-Cambridge (Boston) and since 1988 full professorship at the Technical University of Stuttgart as Director of the Institute of Architectural Design and Theory of Space. He received several honors and prizes: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Paris, Kulturpreis für Architektur, Vienna, Jože Plečnik Award, Ljubljana, Premio San Giusto d’oro, Trieste, Goldenes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um das Land Wien, Premio “Vergilius d’Oro”, Mantova, Doctor honoris causa of the University of Maribor and of the University of Belgrade, Member of Honor of the Academies of Sciences and Arts in Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia, Member of Honor of Bund der Deutschen Architekten, Germany.