This previously unpublished interview with Hans Hollein was conducted in July 2009 by Sanam Samanian  (in collaboration with Parisa Kohbodi); Hollein passed away in 2014.

Guggenheim Museum, Salzburg, O?sterreich, 1990. . Image © Atelier Hans Hollein / Sina Baniahmad

This previously unpublished interview with Hans Hollein was conducted in July 2009 by Sanam Samanian  (in collaboration with Parisa Kohbodi); Hollein passed away in 2014.It was 2009, my first time in Vienna and I felt at home?as if I knew the city, its elegant architecture and its profound understanding of life. Vienna is quiet. It doesn?t make any noise about itself or ask for validation from the world; and when I walked into the studio of Hans Hollein it became clear that neither does he.A a recent graduate of architecture school, I was trying to make it as a writer in the industry. With a bright friend, colleague and then-student from Waterloo University, we hopped on trains and traveled from country to country. In retrospect, I was probably looking for conversations with those I respected. I was looking to understand how they started their careers and what they were exploring. And I had no idea then that this may be the last interview with Mr. Hans Hollein, the man responsible for some of architecture history's key postmodern buildings: the Austrian Embassy Building in Berlin, the Glass and Ceramics house in Tehran, and the Retti Candle Shop in Vienna. His Pritzker Prize was given to him b...