Rob Krier

Rob Krier (10 June 1938 – November 2023) was a Luxembourgish sculptor, architect, urban designer, and theorist.

He was a professor of architecture at Vienna University of Technology, Austria.

Krier studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich from 1959 to 1964.

After graduating, he worked with Oswald Mathias Ungers in Cologne and Berlin (1965–1966) and Frei Otto in Berlin and Stuttgart (1967–1970).

From 1973 to 1975, he was an assistant in the school of architecture at the University of Stuttgart.

In 1975, he was guest professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, in Switzerland.

Krier first came to international attention with his 1975 book Stadtraum, which was translated into English under the title Urban Space in 1979, reprinted as Stadtraum / Urban Space in 2005 Krier contributed theoretically and practically to several key projects, including Ritterstrasse (1977–80) and Rauchstrasse (1980) in Berlin, Breitenfurterstrasse in Vienna (1981–87), and Kirchsteigfeld in Potsdam (1992–97).

Krier died in November 2023, at the age of 85.

From 1976 to 1998, he was professor of architecture at Vienna University of Technology.

From 1976 to 1994, Krier had his own architect's office in Vienna.

From 1992 until 2004, he ran a joint office with Nicolas Lebunetel in Montpellier, France.

From 1993 to mid-2010s he worked in partnership with architect Christoph Kohl in a joint office based in Berlin, Germany.

He was the older brother of fellow architect Léon Krier.

Both are well-known representatives of New Urbanism and New Classical Architecture.

In 1993, he also founded a joint office with Christoph Kohl in Berlin.

most recently incorporated as “Krier ∙ Kohl Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH”.

In addition, in 1996, he was a guest professor at Yale University, in the United States.

Since June 2010, the renamed KK Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH has been backed by Rob Krier as senior advisor.