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.
