Architect Leon Krier

Leon Krier

Living place: Luxembourg

Birthday: 7-4-1946 (78 years old)

Global rank: #80615

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Who is Architect Leon Krier?
Neo-traditional architect and urban planner who criticized modernist theories and was influenced by the New Urbanization movement. One of his most recognized projects is the ongoing development of Poundbury, the urban expansion to Dorchester.
He blamed modernism for the formation of suburbs.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He only studied architecture for a year at the University of Stuttgart in Germany before leaving to work in the London firm of James Stirling. He then taught for 20 years at the Architectural Association and the Royal College of Art, refusing to build in part because of his opposition to modernism.

Family life info

His brother turned architect Rob Krier.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Architect Leon Krier?
He was born in the same country as photographer Edward Steichen.

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When was Architect Leon Krier born?
Leon Krier birthday 7-4-1946 (at the age of 78).
Where is Architect Leon Krier's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Leon Krier was born in . is a Architect, whose Zodiac is Aries, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dog. Leon Krier's global rank is 80615 and whose rank is 157 in list of famous Architect.
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Events in 1946 and 7-4

Events in the world in the birth year of Leon Krier

  • First meeting of United Nations General Assembly opens in London (Jan. 10).
  • League of Nations dissolved (April).
  • Italy abolishes monarchy (June).
  • The Philippines gains independence from the United States (July 4).
  • 12 Nazi leaders (including 1 tried in absentia) are sentenced to hang, 7 imprisoned, and 3 acquitted in the Nuremberg trials (Oct. 1). Background: Defining Genocide
  • Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech warns of Soviet expansion. Background: The Cold War
  • Juan Perón becomes president of Argentina.

Birthday Leon Krier (7-4) in history

  • Day 7-4 year 1862: Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh.
  • Day 7-4 year 1913: 5,000 suffragists march to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. , seeking the vote for women.
  • Day 7-4 year 1927: U.S. secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover’s Washington speech was seen and heard in New York in the first long-distance television transmission.
  • Day 7-4 year 1948: The World Health Organization, a UN agency, was founded.
  • Day 7-4 year 1949: Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize winner, South Pacific opened on Broadway.
  • Day 7-4 year 1994: Hutu extremists in Rwanda began massacring ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus. In 100 days of killing, an estimated 800,000 are murdered.
  • Day 7-4 year 2003: Cécile de Brunhoff, creator of Babar the elephant, died.
  • Day 7-4 year 2009: Vermont becomes the fourth U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage, just days after Iowa becomes the third.
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