Heinz Tesar was an Austrian architect who has an international reputation for his church and museum architecture. Tesar died on 18 January 2023, at the age of 84.
Heinz Tesar’s death may have contributed to his old age, he may have died of natural causes. however, the Tesar family has yet to reveal the cause of his death.
For various international competition entries, he has received the first or second prize, from Klösterliareal in Bern (1981), and the University Library in Amiens (1991).
Tesar studied architecture from 1961 to 1965 at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in the master class of Roland Rainer.
After several stays in Hamburg (1959–1961), Munich (1965–1968) and Amsterdam (1971), he opened in 1973, his studio in Vienna. 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. In 2000 he opened an office in Berlin.
He has been one of the most important and well-known representatives of an Austrian generation of architects that massively entered the architecture stage hitherto occupied by famous names like Hollein, Holzbauer, and Peichl.
But he is also one of those for whom concentration on one’s work is more important than its media coverage, This is the reason why a comprehensive book on Heinz Tesar has not yet been published. Heinz Tesar rest in peace and his memory be a blessing.
