Paul Koralek

Paul Koralek
Born (1933-04-07) April 7, 1933
Vienna, Austria
Nationality British
Occupation architect

Paul Koralek CBE (born 1933) is a British architect and founding member of the architecture company Ahrends, Burton and Koralek. He is best known for this brutalist style, as seen in buildings such as the Berkeley Library at Trinity College Dublin.[1]

Life and education

Paul George Koralek was born in Vienna, Austria on 7 April 1933. His family left Austria in 1938 after the Anschluss, the reunification of Austria and Germany. From 1951 he studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, graduating in 1956. After graduation, he worked with Philip Powell.[2] Later, whilst working in New York City with Marcel Breuer, Koralek submitted and won the competition to design the new Berkeley Library in Trinity College Dublin. In the same year, 1961, he founded the architectural company Ahrends, Burton and Koralek with his former classmates, Peter Ahrends and Richard Burton.[3]

Career

Koralek is known for his brutalist style which is epitomised in the Berkeley Library at Trinity College Dublin. Following this, Trinity also appointed him the principal architect to the adjoining Arts Block in 1969. Koralek was again commissioned by Trinity to design the new Dental Hospital and School on Lincoln Place in the 1990s.[3]

He was appointed CBE in the 1984 Birthday Honours.

National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C467/118) with Paul Koralek in 2014 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Ahrends, Burton, & Koralek". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 2017-03-15.
  2. ↑ "Paul Koralek RA". Royal Academy of Arts. Retrieved 2017-03-13.
  3. 1 2 "Koralek, Paul". Archiseek. Retrieved 2017-03-13.
  4. ↑ National Life Stories, 'Koralek, Paul (1 of 15) National Life Stories Collection: Architects' Lives', The British Library Board, 2014. Retrieved 10 April 2018
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