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Peichl, Gustav
(b Vienna, 18 March 1928). Austrian architect, writer, teacher and draughtsman. He studied (1949–53) under Clemens Holzmeister at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna. After establishing his own practice in Vienna in 1953, he designed buildings in a pure form inherited from the Modernism of the 1930s. The Krim Elementary School (1961) in Vienna was followed by school buildings (1963–5), including dormitories, a refectory and gymnasium, for the Dominican convent, Vienna, where facilities for varied activities are integrated harmoniously in one complex. In the late 1960s Peichl’s work became more expressive, while still maintaining absolutely rational planning principles. The Rehabilitationszentrum (1965–7) in Meidling, Vienna, demonstrated a growing interest in the expression of service functions at roof-level, whereby the building’s inherent characteristics are made more explicit to the onlooker. This tendency became more recognizable in the series of radio stations he designed for the ORF network across Austria from 1970 (see fig.). There was no direct affinity, however, with Brutalist preconceptions in Peichl’s work here, since, given a rational purpose for a particular element, he felt free to charge it with a slight degree of mechanistic parody. In the redevelopment project ‘Die Freyung zu Wien’ (1974) for Vienna, Peichl developed this contextual awareness of nature and surroundings, as he did again in the ORF Station (1977), Graz, where part of the building lies underground.
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