Léon Krier
Luxembourgian architect (1946-2025) · Luxembourg · On the map · Architects · Died at 79
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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On 27 October 2017, in the Main Square of Poundbury, Dorset, designed by Léon Krier, Prince Charles unveiled a statue in tribute to the late Queen Mother, the pedestal of which was designed also by Léon Krier.
Ciudad Cayalá, Guatemala City, Guatemala
The Krier House, Seaside, Florida, designed late 1980s
Village Hall, Windsor, Florida, 1997, by Léon Krier
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He was well known for his master plan for Poundbury, in Dorset, England. He was the younger brother of architect Rob Krier.
