Günther Domenig (1934–2012) was an Austrian architect from Klagenfurt whose work moved from brutalism through pop architecture to an expressive, counter-modernist style. He studied at the Graz University of Technology and from 1963 to 1973 practised with Eilfried Huth; their exposed-concrete Pedagogical Academy in Graz and parish church at Oberwart are among the outstanding examples of brutalism in Austria, and their unbuildable Stadt Ragnitz megastructure resembled the projects of the Metabolists and Archigram. Domenig taught at Graz from 1980 and received the Grand Austrian State Prize for Architecture in 2004.
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His first internationally acclaimed building was the Zentralsparkasse Branch, Favoritenstrasse in Vienna (1979), the "Z-bank". He worked on his own concrete house at Lake Ossiach, the Steinhaus (2008), from 1980 until 2008. In 1998 he won the international competition for the Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg (2001), in the unfinished Congress Hall: a diagonal passage of glass and steel spears through the building's north head, a pun on and rebuttal of the Nazi architect Albert Speer, whose surname means "spear". Domenig, the son of a Nazi judge, was also confronting his own history.
