Continuing our series revisiting deconstructivist architecture we profile Wolf Prix, one of the founders of the radical Austrian practice Coop Himmelb(l)au.
Walter Hochauer
In the early 1990s, an intact mummy was discovered in the Ötztal Alps, on the Italian-Austrian border, that proved to be more than 5,000 years old. What is known today as Austria has been populated for a very long time; the buildings here are just a blip on the region’s history, but they’re all worth seeing when you’re next there.
Earlier versions of the descriptions of these buildings first appeared in 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die
, edited by Mark Irving (2016). Writers’ names appear in parentheses.
Schloss Belvedere
The two parts of the 18th-century Schloss Belvedere, southeast of Vienna, were built for Prince Eugen of Savoy. The Lower Belvedere, built first, is a single-story pavilion with a mansard roof and a raised centerpiece containing the Marble Hall, with frescoes by Martino Altomonte. The Upper Belvedere, built about ten years later, stands on higher ground to the south and is a more complex structure with three stories and an a