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Luxembourgian architect (1946-2025)

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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.

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2017Honorary Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
2003The Richard H. Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame
1997Eugène Carrière Prize
Rome Prize

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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.

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Lived 1946 to 2025 · aged 79
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