Dietmar Feichtinger

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Dietmar Feichtinger (born November 18, 1961 in Bruck an der Mur, Austria) is an Austrian architect established since 1989 in Paris. He studied architecture at the Graz University of Technology and graduated [summa] cum laude in 1988. After gaining initial experience with Prof. Huth, Prof. Giencke and Prof. Kada, he moved to Paris in 1989, working at Chaix/Morel where he was appointed associate architect and project manager. In 1994 he founded Feichtinger Architectes, with headquarters in Paris, and in 2002 he opened a subsidiary in Vienna. Feichtinger has taught at a number of universities since 1994 - the University of Paris 6-La Villette, the RWTH Aachen, the University of Innsbruck and the University of Vienna - and has lectured extensively on the work of the practice. In 1998 he was awarded the Kunstpreis Berlin by the Academy of Arts.

He designed the Simone-de-Beauvoir footbridge in Paris, exceptional 190 m free-span in innovating the new combined structure, won the European competition for the Mont Saint Michel pedestrian causeway bridge and the Tri country bridge the longest arch footbridge in the world linking France and Germany over the Rhine(inaugurated 30 June 2007).

He pays close attention to the structures. "The bones of the building - that is what every architect should be interested in." His bridges are, in that sense, a stylistic exercise: "This is all-revealing architecture, you can conceal nothing. It is the basic principles that make the project."

[edit] Awards

German Bridge Award 2008
Mies van der Rohe Prize 2007, 3 buildings by Feichtinger Architectes have been nominated
Equerre d’argent 2006, French architecture award, special prize
Culture and Sciences Prize of Lower Austria 2006
German Bridge Award 2008
Renault Future Traffic Award 2007
Geramb Rose 2006
Austrian Construction Prize 2005
Equerre d’argent 2005, nominated (20 buildings only in France)
1998 Kunstpreis Berlin), career promotion award for architecture made by the Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts)