# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-krier
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:24:32.735Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-krier"
name: "Léon Krier"
slug: "leon-krier"
description: "Léon Krier CVO was a Luxembourgish architect, architectural theorist, and urban planner, a prominent critic of modernist architecture and advocate of New Classical architecture and New Urbanism. Krier combined an international architecture and planning practice with writing and teaching. He was well known for his master plan for Poundbury, in Dorset, England. He was the younger brother of architect Rob Krier."
tagline: "Luxembourgian architect (1946–2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Leon_Krier_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "architects"
profileType:
  name: "Architect"
  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1946-04-07"
deathDate: "2025-06-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             7.601078167115901
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump