Background
Domenig was born in Klagenfurt, and studied architecture at the Technische Universität, Graz (1953–1959).
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Domenig was born in Klagenfurt, and studied architecture at the Technische Universität, Graz (1953–1959).
Domenig"s first internationally acclaimed completed work was the Z-bank in Vienna, which signalled a much more expressionistic, counter-modernist aesthetic.
After working as an architectural assistant, he set up in practice with Eilfried Huth (1963–1973), producing highly regarded buildings in a brutalist vein. Domenig"s own house, the "Steinhaus" at Lake Ossiach, a lake near Klagenfurt, became a personal manifesto. Over the many years of its construction, it was both an outlet for his technical and formal experimentation, and a focus for his architectural aspirations.
The Steinhaus has become a cultural icon, having hosted concerts, been the subject of television and art projects, and having featured in many books and magazines.
In the wider world, Domenig produced many notable buildings, with clients as diverse as schools, banks, local authority social housing departments, and difficult projects such as the Dokumentationszentrum (Documentation Centre, 1999) in Nürnberg adjacent to Albert Speer"s Nazi Party Congress complex. In addition to his practice, Domenig was also appointed Professor at the Technische Universität, Graz in 1980.
He died, aged 77, in Graz. 1967: Austrian builders award for Catholic Educational Academy in Graz (with Eilfried Huth).
1967: Austrian builders award for Catholic Educational Academy in Graz (with Eilfried Huth) 1969: Grand Prix International d"Architecture et d"Urbanisme Cannes (with Eilfried Huth) 1981: Austrian builders prize for the Z-branch Favoriten in Vienna 1989: Austrian builders prize for the power plant in Frombork Unzmarkt 1995: Austrian builders award for the National Exhibition Carinthia: Grubenhunt und Ofensau 1995: Golden Medal of Honour of Vienna 1996: Award of Carinthia 1997: Austrian builders award for RESOWI centre in Graz 1998: Austrian builders award for the refurbishment of the City Theatre in Klagenfurt 2004: Grand Austrian State Prize for Architecture 2004: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class 2006: Austrian State Prize for Architecture and Austrian builders prize for the T-Center Saint Marx.