Léon Krier DESIGNER

Leon Krier was born in Luxembourg in 1946. He studied for one year at the University of Stuttgart in Germany in 1967 and worked in James Stirling’s studio in London 1968-74. As a professor of architecture and urbanism he taught at The Architectural Association And The Royal College in London, in the US, at  Princeton University, at the University of Virginia, at Yale University and at the University Of Notre-Dame. He won the Berlin Preis of Architecture (1977), the Jefferson Memorial Medal (1985) the Chicago AIA Award (1987), the Inaugural Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architectutre (2003) and the Athena Medal at the Congress of New Urbanism (CNU) in 2006. He has published books in Japan, Belgium and Great Britain and has held exhibitions throughout the world, including a large personal show at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, in 1985. He has realized projects in Luxembourg, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, England and in the United States. He is the personal advisor to Prince Charles of Wales, for whom he drew up the master plan for the development of the town of Poundbury, in Dorset. He projected the “Piano Guida” for Firenze Novoli (1993), the Palace of Justice in Luxembourg, the Archeological Museum in Sintra Portugal (1993-94). In 2003, he has received the “Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Architecture”, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. He has been designing furniture exclusively for Giorgetti since 1991.