Tesar studied architecture from 1961 to 1965 at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in the master class of Prof. Roland Rainer. After several stays in Hamburg (1959-1961), Munich (1965-1968) and Amsterdam (1971), he opened in 1973, his own studio in Vienna. From 1972 to 1977 he was a member of the Board of the Austrian Society for Architecture and from 2002 to 2006 he was a member of Baukollegiums of the city of Zurich. In 2000 he opened an office in Berlin.
Academic career
Since the 1980s, he has taught at various universities in Europe and America:
1996-2000 Visiting Professor Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia
1997-1998 Visiting Professor University of Fine Arts Hamburg
2000-2006 Visiting Professor Accademia di Architettura, University of Italian Switzerland, Mendrisio
Design competitions
For various international competition entries he has received the first or second prize: e.g. for Klösterliareal in Bern (1981), the University Library in Amiens (1991), the Synagogue in Dresden (1997), the Museum for Art and Design in Ingolstadt (2000) and the Museum of Medicine in Padua, Italy (2004).
1994 Stadttheater / cinema and museum, Hallein, (the conversion of Wunibald Deininger building which was erected in 1925 -Deininger was a student of Otto Wagner)
