Dieter Mathoi (26 September 1943 – 18 August 2012) was an Austrian architect. With two colleagues, as the firm Heinz & Mathoi & Streli in Innsbruck, he worked for 35 years, building private homes in the alpine landscape of

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, schools, offices and public buildings, among others. He opened his own office in 2008 and was known for prison buildings and for designing the controversial

Kaufhaus Tyrol Kaufhaus Tyrol () is the current name of a department store with a long history in the centre of Innsbruck, the state capital of Tyrol, Austria. It was built in 1908, and a new building was opened in 2010. With 55 shops, it is the largest departme ...

in Innsbruck with

David Chipperfield Sir David Alan Chipperfield, (born 18 December 1953) is an English architect. He established David Chipperfield Architects in 1985. His major works include the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire (1989–1998); the Museum ...

Career

Mathoi studied architecture at the

Academy of Fine Arts, Munich The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (german: Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, also known as Munich Academy) is one of the oldest and most significant art academies in Germany. It is located in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich, in Bavaria, ...

, from 1963 to 1967. After several years of practice, he became an assistant at the Institut für Hochbau of

Innsbruck University The University of Innsbruck (german: Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck; la, Universitas Leopoldino Franciscea) is a public research university in Innsbruck, the capital of the Austrian federal state of Tyrol, founded on October 15, 1669. I ...

in 1972, where he worked until 1976. From 1973, Mathoi collaborated with two colleagues, Karl Heinz and

Jörg Streli Jörg Streli (26 March 1940 – 13 February 2019) was an Austrian architect and academic teacher at the Innsbruck University. With two colleagues, as the firm Heinz & Mathoi & Streli, he built private homes in the alpine landscape of Tyrol, school ...

, as the firm Heinz & Mathoi & Streli. While they created many buildings jointly, each architect also pursued his own projects. Mathoi created family homes, including the house of

Günther Mader Günther Mader (born 24 June 1964) is a former alpine ski racer and Olympic medalist from Austria. Born in Matrei am Brenner, Tyrol, he is one of only five men to have won World Cup races in all five alpine disciplines (downhill, super G, ...

, markets and a building for the car dealer Vowa in Innsbruck. Together, they built a chapel in 1982, the Sankt-Margarethen-Kapelle in Innerberg, which rises like a tower on a circular floor. They built a home for homeless children as a ''Gruppenwohnheim'' (group home) with four separate units, completed in Jagdberg,

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, in 1984. The joint extension of the University Hospital in Innsbruck, created by adding a technical and a clinical floor for gynecology and neurology on top, built from 2006 to 2008, was nominated for the award of the Fundació Mies van der Rohe in 2009. In 2008, Springer published a

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of their works, both group and individual projects, titled ''Heinz-Mathoi-Streli / Architekten / Bauten und Projekte / Buildings and Projects'', with evaluations by

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and . The same year, the architects dissolved their firm.

Mathoi opened his own office in 2008. A central project was the

department store in the centre of Innsbruck, which Mathoi designed with

. The British star architect had been commissioned by the investor René Benko, after previous plans by Johann Obermoser had been criticised. The design by Chipperfield and Mathoi was initially controversial.Zur ursprünglichen architektonischen Umstrittenheit des Kaufhauses Tyrol: Wojciech Czaja: ''Konzertant bis kontrovers – Das Haus der Musik eröffnet''. In: Der Standard, 6. Oktober 2018
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, the ''Mies van der Rohe Award'', in 2011. It won a

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in 2011. One of Mathoi's special projects were prisons ( in Austria), which he designed to enable humane treatment of the inmates. The Justizzentrum in Korneuburg in Lower Austria, built with the firm DIN A4, was awarded the 2014 , a national prize for architecture and

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, as one of five buildings. Buildings by Mathoi were displayed in the international exhibition ''Autochtone Architektur in Tirol'', including in Munich. Dieter Mathoi died on 18 August 2012 at age 68.

Buildings

The joint projects for Heinz & Mathoi & Streli included feasibility studies, city planning, homes for single families and larger units, preschools, schools and buildings for higher education, sports facilities, stores, offices, industrial buildings and traffic buildings. Examples include: * 1978: Hauptschule in

Fulpmes Fulpmes is a market town and a municipality in Stubaital, Tyrol, Austria. In 2015 it had a population of 4,250, of whom 14.5% did not have Austrian nationality. Fulpmes is the center of iron production in the area, and lies at the base of the Schl ...

(school) * 1978: Fremdenverkehrsfachschule in

Zell am Ziller Zell am Ziller is a municipality in the Schwaz district in the Austrian state of Tyrol. The name derives from the river Ziller. Climate Population Facilities The Zillertal Arena was formed in 2000 from a merger of the ski area A ski area i ...

* 1980: Landesberufsschule Feldkirch in

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* 1981: Kapelle Innerberg in

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(chapel) * 1982: Modegeschäft Einwaller Anna in Innsbruck (fashion store) * 1983: Doppelhaus Knofler/Mikuz, Innsbruck (private homes) * 1984: Landesjugendheim Jagdberg in Schlins (group housing, with Norbert Schweitzer) * 1987: Krankenpflegeschule in

(school) * 1987: Seilbahn Brixen im Thale in

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* 1989: Volksschule in Igls * 1990: Porsche Interauto Verkaufscenter in Innsbruck (car dealer) * 1993: Barwies in

Mieming Mieming () is a municipality in the Imst district and is located 19 km east of Imst and 6 km west of Telfs Telfs is a market town in the district of Innsbruck-Land in the Austrian state of Tyrol, west of Innsbruck. It is the third lar ...

(grocery store chain) * 1993: Bürohaus EBB in Innsbruck (office building) * 1994: Eisenbahnumfahrung Innsbruck in Mils (traffic) * 1995: Autohaus Vowa in Innsbruck (car dealer) * 1996: Mehrzweckgebäude mit Rasthaus at the

Europe Bridge Europe bridge is the name of several bridges in Europe : *In Austria as ''Europabrücke'' **Europabrücke, a bridge over the Wipp valley (1963), highest bridge in Europe until 2004 and Millau Viaduct achievement *In Belgium as ''Pont de l'Europe'' ...

(highway restaurant) * 1996: Wohnanlage und Bürohaus in Innsbruck (housing and office building) * 1998: Totenkapelle an der Pfarrkirche Herz-Jesu in Stans (chapel) * 1999: Hotelfachschule Villa Blanka in Innsbruck * 2001: Landesfeuerwehrschule Tirol in Telfs (firemen's school) * 2004: HTBL und VA Mödling in

Mödling Mödling () is the capital of the Austrian Mödling (district), district of the same name located approximately 14 km south of Vienna. Mödling lies in Lower Austria's industrial zone (Industrieviertel). The Mödlingbach, a brook which rises ...

* 2005: MPreis Bramberg in

Bramberg Bramberg am Wildkogel is a municipality in the district of Zell am See (district), Zell am See (Pinzgau region), in the state of Salzburg (state), Salzburg, Austria. The town lies at the south foot of the high Wildkogel mountain. The town's averag ...

* 2006: Naturparkhaus Ginzling (parking garage) * 2008: Aufstockung Frauen- und Kopfklinik in Innsbruck (hospital extension)

References

External links

Autochthone Architektur in Tirol : individuelle Figuren der Tiroler Baukunst im kollektiven Rahmen der Alpinen Landschaftsrezeption
(Ausstellungskatalog) catalog.hathitrust.org
Heinz - Mathoi - Streli
im Archiv für Baukunst der Universität Innsbruck
Bauherrenpreise
zv-architekten.at
Bürohaus Innsbruck
architektur-heinz.at
vor ort 85 "dieter mathoi: neue justizanstalt west, innsbruck"
aut.cc 2007
vor ort 103 "david chipperfield architects, dieter mathoi architekten: kaufhaus tyrol, innsbruck"
aut.cc 2010
Dieter Mathoi Architekten ZT GmbH, Innsbruck; Arch. DI Axel Birnbaum, Innsbruck
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