| Rob Krier (1938) studied at the Technical University in Munich,
Germany. He was professor at different universities: University
of Stuttgart, École Polytechnique Fédérale
de Lausanne, Technical University Vienna, Institute of Architectural
Design, Yale University, New Haven. Rob Krier has an office
in Vienna (Austria), Montpellier (France) and in Berlin with
Christoph Kohl (Germany). He also works as a sculptor, principally
creating sculptures for public spaces.
Rob Krier and Christoph Kohl practice an urbanism orientated
towards traditional architecture. They respect the specific
history of a town and aim to reanimate it by drawing on up-to-date
resources. By emphasizing the spatial context, they prove
themselves to be anti-modernist, without being anti-innovative.
Rob Krier and Christoph Kohl readily apply the terms "normal"
building and "normal" house, by which they mean
the observation of human proportions in architecture. For
them, the future of the city lies in a social "down-scaling"
of architecture, and in reanimating sections of the city that
unify different facets of social life.
Rob Krier was appointed master planner for the
Resident in 1988. He laid down his vision for the whole area in 1989 and
finalized this by 1991, in which year other architects from
all over the world joined him. He is also the designer of
the Muzentoren and the offices and shops on both corners of
the Fluwelen Burgwal and the Turfmarkt.
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