Raimund Abraham

Raimund Abraham
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1933
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2010

Raimund Johann Abraham (July 23, 1933[1] – March 4, 2010[2]) was an Austrian architect.

Early life and formal education

Raimund Johann Abraham was born in 1933, in the town of Lienz, Tyrol in Austria, and he died on March 4, 2010, in Los Angeles, California.[4] Throughout a 40-year career, Abraham created visionary projects and built works of architecture, in Europe and the United States.[5] From 1952-1958, Abraham studied at the Technical University of Graz, and in 1959, he established a studio in Vienna, where he explored the depths and boundaries of architecture through building, drawing, and montage.[6] Abraham's first book, the 1965 publication “Elementare Architektur” was made at a time of transition between architecture studies and practice.[7] In this early volume on elemental structures, Abraham explores the built environment, absent aesthetic speculation, and determinations about design instead coming from the relative level of knowledge and also the desires of the builder. In 1964, Abraham emigrated to the United States.