Hungarian name on Austria’s newest university building – UPDATED

The new building of an Austrian university has been named after Ágnes Heller, a world-known Hungarian philosopher.

According to index.hu, the Leopold Franzens University’s (Innsbruck) building has an auditorium with 600 seats, office and reading rooms. The inauguration took place on Friday, and the new place will host faculties of arts, culture studies and education sciences.

The designer was Peter Sandbichler, and the new wing cost EUR 81 million.

Heller was a Doctor Honoris Causa of the university and died in 2019.

The Austrian education minister, Martin Polaschek, highlighted at the inauguration ceremony that Innsbruck (and Tirol) are education centres in Austria, and the new building provides the most modern education infrastructure for the students.

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Here are some photos of the new building: