Rob Krier (born 1938 in Grevenmacher) is a Luxembourgian sculptor, architect, urban designer and theorist. He is former professor of architecture at Vienna University of Technology, Austria. Since 1993, he has been in partnership with architect Christoph Kohl in a joint office based in Berlin, Germany.
He is the older brother of fellow architect Léon Krier.
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Krier studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich from 1959 to 1964. After graduating, he worked with Oswald Mathias Ungers in Cologne and Berlin (1965-66) and Frei Otto in Berlin and Stuttgart (1967-70). From 1973 to 1975, he was an assistant in the school of architecture at the University of Stuttgart. In 1975, he was guest professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, in Switzerland. From 1976 to 1998, he was professor of architecture at Vienna University of Technology.[1] In addition, in 1996, he was a guest professor at Yale University, in the United States.
From 1976 to 1994, Krier had his own architect's office in Vienna. From 1992 until 2004, he ran a joint office with Nicolas Lebunetel in Montpellier, France. In 1993, he also founded a joint office with Christoph Kohl in Berlin.[1]
Krier first came into international attention with his 1975 book Stadtraum, which has been translated into English under the title Urban Space in 1979.[1]