HANS HOLLEIN (1934–2014)

The Pritzker Prize-winning architect Hans Hollein has passed away, according to the New York Times’ Margalit Fox. Hollein was renowned for high-profile buildings, like the Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach, Germany, and the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt, but he also took on smaller-scale projects, working on boutiques, museum exhibitions, and home accessories, like a silver tea in the form of an aircraft carrier that he created for Alessi. Hollein often used columns, sometimes to surreal effect, adding a group of them—turned into palm trees—to the Vienna branch he designed for the Austrian State Travel Agency. In his lifetime, Hollein was a guest teacher at Yale; Washington University in St. Louis; the University of California, Los Angeles; and Ohio State University among other schools. The manifesto he penned in 1968 for the Austrian architecture magazine Bau revealed the extent to which architecture consumed his life. Its title? “Alles Ist Architektur,” or Everything is Architecture.