Wolf D. Prix was born in 1942 and studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology, at the Architectural Association in London and at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles. He is one of the founders of COOP HIMMEL(L)AU. He has been a full professor of architecture since 1993 and has served as the chairman of the Architecture Institute of the Vienna University of Applied Arts since 2003.