Wolf D. Prix, born in 1942 in Vienna, is co-founder, Design Principal and CEO of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. He studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology and the Architectural Association of London, as well as at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles.
He has taught at institutions including the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Harvard Graduate School of Design, Columbia University, UCLA University of California and Yale School of Architecture. From 2003 to 2012 he was a Vice-Rector and Head of the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
Wolf D. Prix is counted among the originators of the deconstructivist architecture movement. COOP HIMMELB(L)AU had its international breakthrough with the invitation to the exhibition ‘Deconstructivist Architecture’ at MoMA New York in 1988. Over the years Wolf D. Prix/ COOP HIMMELB(L)AU has been awarded numerous international architecture awards.
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