Education
Tesar studied architecture from 1961 to 1965 at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in the master class of Professor Roland Rainer.
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Tesar studied architecture from 1961 to 1965 at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in the master class of Professor Roland Rainer.
After several stays in Hamburg (1959-1961), Munich (1965-1968) and Amsterdam (1971), he opened in 1973, his own studio in Vienna. In 2000 he opened an office in Berlin. Academic career Since the 1980s, he has taught at various universities in Europe and America: 1983 Visiting Professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York 1985-1987 Visiting Professor at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich 1988 Visiting Professor at Syracuse University, New York 1990 Visiting Professor Graduate School of Design, Harvard university, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1990-1991 Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Munich 1992 Cass Gilbert Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 1995 International Summer Academy in Salzburg 1996-2000 Visiting Professor Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia 1997-1998 Visiting Professor University of Fine Arts Hamburg 2000-2006 Visiting Professor Accademia di Architettura, University of Italian Switzerland, Mendrisio.
Foreign various international competition entries he has received the first or second prize: e.g. for Klösterliareal in Bern (1981), the University Library in Amiens (1991), the Synagogue in Dresden (1997), the Museum for Art and Design in Ingolstadt (2000) and the Museum of Medicine in Padua, Italy (2004).
From 1972 to 1977 he was a member of the Board of the Austrian Society for Architecture and from 2002 to 2006 he was a member of Baukollegiums of the city of Zurich.
