After his structural engineering training in Vienna in 1980, Norbert Bauer worked initially in an architectural office funded by the Municipality of Vienna within a team of well known architects (Schuster, Holubowsky, Kleindienst) developing Town Regeneration Plans for districts within the inner belt road of Vienna which was later adopted by the municipality and assisted to modernize the city. Here he got into contact with the early trials with CAD and used his applied knowledge towards improving AUTOCAD for architectural applications in the German language, which had initially been developed by AUTODESK for general designing. He could assist in making AUTOCAD user friendlier and developed micros for tablet and menu entries to help computer illiterate to work on desktop computers doing computer aided design (CAD). In his 24 years of professional experience as architect Norbert Bauer has designed and supervised the building of numerous residential building blocks in Vienna but also industrial plants in the middle East funded by an Austrian industrialist. Norbert Bauer joint forces with the author to register the architectural design and management company 3D design-development-display, Barnert, Bauer OEG, in 1991 under which name numerous construction projects have been implemented in Eastern Africa, some of which were funded by the Aga Khan Development Network (www.akdn.org ). After leaving this part of the world, he concentrate his activities in Austria to implement affordable residential housing and also took on a training post at the Academy for Arts of Vienna teaching CAD in the Institute of Wilhelm Holzbauer, Zvi Hecker und Zaha M. Hadid. Norbert Bauer today manages his own design office in Vienna and cooperates with other well known architectural offices of:

Adolf Holubowsky

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