Krier, Leon

Leon Krier was born in Luxembourg in 1946. He studied Architecture at the University of Stuttgart in Germany. From 1968 to 1974, he worked in James Stirling’s studio in London. As a professor of Architecture and Urban Studies, he taught at the Architectural Association of the Royal College of Arts in London and at Princeton University, at the University of Virginia and at Yale University in the United States. In 1977, he won the Berlin Preis of Architecture, followed by the Jefferson Memorial Medal in 1985 and thereafter the Chicago AIA Award in 1987. Leon Krier has published books in Japan, Belgium and Great Britain and has held exhibitions throughout the world, including a large personal show at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in New York in 1985. He has realized projects in Luxembourg, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, England and in the United States. He is the personal advisor to Prince Charles of Wales, for whom he drew up the master plan for the development of the town of Poundbury, in Dorset. He has been designing furniture for Giorgetti since 1991, introduced by Massimo Scolari, who is the art director and designer of our company.