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Designer
Léon Krier
Léon Krier was born in Luxembourg in 1946. He studied for one year at the University of Stuttgart in 1967 and worked in James Stirling's studio in London from 1968 to 1974. As a professor of architecture and urbanism he taught at the…
Biography
Background
Léon Krier was born in Luxembourg in 1946. He studied for one year at the University of Stuttgart in 1967 and worked in James Stirling's studio in London from 1968 to 1974. As a professor of architecture and urbanism he taught at the Architectural Association and the Royal College in London, and in the US at Princeton University, the University of Virginia, Yale University and the University of Notre-Dame.
Signature Style
He has realised projects in Luxembourg, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, England and the United States, among them the master plan for the town of Poundbury in Dorset, drawn up for Prince Charles of Wales, the Piano Guida for Firenze Novoli (1993), the Palace of Justice in Luxembourg and the Archeological Museum in Sintra, Portugal (1993-94).
Notable Works
His Giorgetti furniture includes Selectus, Aries and Ovis. He has designed furniture exclusively for Giorgetti since 1991.
Legacy
His awards are the Berlin Preis of Architecture in 1977, the Jefferson Memorial Medal in 1985, the Chicago AIA Award in 1987, the Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture in 2003 and the Athena Medal of the Congress of New Urbanism in 2006. Books by him have been published in Japan, Belgium and Great Britain, and his exhibitions have travelled worldwide, with a large personal show at MoMA in New York in 1985.
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