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).