| Prof. Friedrich Kurrent was born in Salzburg,
Austria, in 1931. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
under Prof. Clemens Holzmeister. He was a member of the legendary
"Arbeitsgruppe 4" (Wilhelm Holzbauer, Johannes Spalt), which
realized such projects as the parish church in Parsch, the
counseling center in Steyr-Ennsleiten, and the St. Josef College in
Salzburg-Aigen. From 1973 to 1996 he was a full professor in the
department for planning, interior design, and construction of
eccliastical architecture at the Technical University in Munich. He
built a residential house in Vienna in 1986, a mountain chapel in
Ramingstein in 1991, a Protestant church in Aschheim (Munich
metropolitan area) and a Catholic church in Kirchheim (Upper
Austria) in 1996, as well as the city of Vienna's university campus
together with the AAKH consortium in 1998. He has been a member of
the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich since 1986. Prof.
Kurrent has received numerous prizes, including the Prize of the
city of Vienna for architecture in 1979, the Austrian cross of
merit for science and art in 1997, and the golden medal of the city
of Vienna in 2001. The Anton Pustet publishing house in Salzburg
published Prof. Kurrent's book "Einige Häuser - Kirchen und
Dergleichen" in 2001. |
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