1985 Pritzker Prize Laureate, Hans Hollein was an Austrian artist, architect, designer, and professor. Hans Hollein was one of the key figures of the postmodern architectural era. Having graduated from the academy of fine arts Vienna in 1956, Hollein went on to pursue his master’s degree in architecture from Illinois Institute of technology in 1959 where he was mentored by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. He further moved to The University of California, Berkeley to complete his master’s program.