ROBERT WIMMER
Robert Wimmer studied architecture at the established Academy of Arts in Vienna and graduated from Gustav Peichl’s master class in 1981.

By working in various architect’s offices in Vienna and Salzburg while he was still studying he was able to collect valuable experience, which he then deepened and enlarged successively later on by independently planning for both public and private clients.

In 1987 he took the “Ziviltechnikerprüfung” – the exam obligatory in Austria for being able to run one’s own architect’s office - and from then on did so as legally certified architect and civil engineer in Salzburg.

In 1989 he was awarded the Wüstenrot Furniture Design Prize and in 1995 he received an official commendation for exemplary designing and merging the old historic building fabric with modern architecture in the city of Salzburg.
Besides various exhibitions within Austria as well as abroad and numerous publications in international architectural magazines he was granted the “Kunstpreis Berlin” for his works by the Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1995.

Robert Wimmer was a member of the “ Gestaltungsbeirat” (architectural committee) in Oberndorf near Salzburg and a board member of the Salzburg and Upper Austrian division of the Austrian board of Architects.

From 2006 to 2010 Robert Wimmer has been a member of the “Sachverständigenkommission für Altstadterhaltung”, the authority composed of specialists entrusted with the conservation of the Old Town of Salzburg.

He has been running the studio Wimmer Zaic Architekten together with Michael Zaic since 1997.