Adolf Krischanitz

Adolf Krischanitz (* 1946 in Schwarzach / Pongau) founded the architectural group Missing Link in 1970, towards the end of his studies at the Vienna University of Technology, together with Angela Hareiter and Otto Kapfinger. In 1979, he was one of the founders of the UmBau journal of the Austrian Society for Architecture and took over the chairmanship of this society in 1982. As a member and eventually president of the Vienna Secession (1991–1995), he was responsible for the design and organization of numerous contemporary art exhibitions. He was a visiting professor at the Technical University of Munich in 1989 and at the summer academies in Karlsruhe (1990), Naples (1994/95), and Vienna (1996). From 1992 to 2011, he was a professor of urban renewal and design at the Berlin University of the Arts. Since 1979, Krischanitz has worked as a freelance architect with studios in Vienna and Zurich.