Boris Podrecca
Architect
Boris Podrecca spent his childhood in Trieste, studied sculpture in Venice and architecture in Vienna, where he lives and works.
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 as Doctor honoris causa of the University of Maribor and is Member of Honor of the Academys of Sciences and Arts in Slovenia.
Several tourism projects:
Hotel Korotan and Hotel Kempinski in Vienna, Falkensteiner Resort Punta Skala in Zadar, Valamar Hotel Lacroma in Dubrovnik, Hotel Four Points for Sheraton in Ljubljana, Falkensteiner Hotel Belgrade in Belgrade, in working progress Hotel Pical in Porec.
Other important works are in Vienna the 220 m high Millennium Tower, the Vienna International Biocenter and recently the DomMuseum; in Venice the residential housing Judeca Nova and the conversion of the Museum of Modern Art Ca’ Pesaro, in Maribor the University and the Medicine Faculty; and in Limoges, France the Museum of Porcelain Adrien Dubouché . Under construction are the “Austria Campus Business Center” in Vienna and the “Metro Area San Pasquale” in Napels.