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Raimund Abraham1933 - 2010

The visionary architect and draughtsman Raimund Johann Abraham (1933–2010) was born in Lienz, in the Tyrol district of Austria. He graduated from the architecture program at the Technical University in Graz and established an avant-garde architectural practice in Vienna before moving to the United States in 1964.

In this country he taught first at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence and, from 1971 until his death, at the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture in New York City and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

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In 2003, Abraham was a visiting professor at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

Abraham’s best-known work is the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, which was completed in 2002 after years of disagreement about its radical solution to an awkward site.

Measuring twenty-five feet wide and 280 feet tall, the building serves an organization founded in 1942 by Austrian emigrants for the purpose of preserving and disseminatin