Léon Krier

Léon Krier
CVO
Krier in 2016
Born(1946-04-07)7 April 1946
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Died17 June 2025(2025-06-17) (aged 79)
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
OccupationArchitect
AwardsDriehaus Architecture Prize 2003
CNU Athena Medal 2006
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order

Léon Krier CVO (7 April 1946 – 17 June 2025) 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. He was well known for his master plan for Poundbury, in Dorset, England. He was the younger brother of architect Rob Krier.

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