The Work: Architecture, Urban Design, Drawings and Sculptures
by Rob Krier
Birkhäuser, August 2021

Hardcover (2 volumes) | 10 x 12 inches | 1,344 pages (The Work I: 712 pages; The Work II: 632 pages) | 3,000 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9783035622799 | ?128
PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
As an architect, urban planner and sculptor, Rob Krier has created a multifaceted oeuvre which is presented here in a comprehensive manner for the first time. After graduating, Krier first worked with O. M. Ungers and Frei Otto before setting up his own studios in Vienna and Berlin. He later taught at the Vienna University of Technology from 1976 to 1998 and as a visiting professor at Yale University in 1986. Drawing on a wealth of historical models and archetypal patterns, he developed new typologies of streets and public squares as an architect and urban planner, and was responsible for numerous urban development projects throughout Europe. These included the perimeter block development on Ritterstrasse for the IBA in Berlin, the residential complex on Breitenfurter Strasse in Vienna, the Kirchsteigfeld district in Potsdam, and numerous projects in the Netherlands. Rob Krier, architect, former professor at the Technical University Vienna (1976-1998).
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dDAB COMMENTARY:
Hearing the name Rob Krier, I immediately think of the book Urban Space, the 1979 English edition of Stadtraum in Theorie und Praxis, published in 1975. That influential book is actuall...