Oskar Strnad

Oskar Strnad was an Austrian architect, sculptor, and theorist of theatrical and film scenography. Primarily, however, he was interested in residential buildings. He aspired to build open worlds and not prisons. From 1900 to 1903, he studied architecture under Max Ferstel, Karl König, and Karl Mayreder at the Technical University of Vienna. He subsequently gained work experience in the Viennese studios of Friedrich Ohmann and Fellner&Helmer. Since 1906, he worked as an independent architect. Until 1918, he occasionally collaborated with Oskar Wlach and Josef Frank. At the same time, he taught at the Vienna School of Applied Arts (today’s die Angewandte), where he served as a teacher from 1909 to 1914 and as a full professor from 1914 to 1935, leaving a significant mark on a whole generation of Austrian interwar architects.