Dietmar Feichtinger

Dietmar Feichtinger (born November 18, 1961 in Bruck an der Mur, Austria) is an Austrian architect established since 1989 in Paris. He studied architecture at the Graz University of Technology and graduated [summa] cum laude in 1988. After gaining initial experience with Prof. Huth, Prof. Giencke and Prof. Kada, he moved to Paris in 1989, working at Chaix/Morel where he was appointed associate architect and project manager. In 1994 he founded Feichtinger Architectes, with headquarters in Paris, and in 2002 he opened a subsidiary in Vienna. Feichtinger has taught at a number of universities since 1994 - the University of Paris 6-La Villette, the RWTH Aachen, the University of Innsbruck and the University of Vienna - and has lectured extensively on the work of the practice. In 1998 he was awarded the Kunstpreis Berlin by the Academy of Arts.

He designed the Simone-de-Beauvoir footbridge in Paris, exceptional 190 m free-span in innovating the new combined structure, won the European competition for the Mont Saint Michel pedestrian causeway bridge and the Three Countries Bridge the longest arch footbridge in the world linking France and Germany over the Rhine(inaugurated 30 June 2007).

He pays close attention to the structures. "The bones of the building - that is what every architect should be interested in." His bridges are, in that sense, a stylistic exercise: "This is all-revealing architecture, you can conceal nothing. It is the basic principles that make the project."

Awards

Feichtinger received 2008 the German Bridge Award for the Three Country Bridge

• German Bridge Award 2008
• Equerre d’argent 2006, French architecture award, special prize
• Culture and Sciences Prize of Lower Austria 2006
• German Bridge Award 2008
• Renault Future Traffic Award 2007
• Geramb Rose 2006
• Austrian Construction Prize 2005
• 1998 Kunstpreis Berlin, career promotion award for architecture made by the Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts)

Literature

Feichtinger Architectes "Passerelle Simone-de-Beauvoir Paris", AAM Editions, Brüssel 2007, ISBN 978-2-87143-175-6

External links

• Official web site of Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes
• Mont Saint Michel sea project
• Footbridge Simone-de-Beauvoir on City of Paris web site
• Dreiländerbrücke or Tri country bridge

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