Rob Krier

Rob Krier (10 June 1938 – 20 November 2023) was a Luxembourgish sculptor, architect, urban designer, and theorist.

From 1993 to mid-2010s he worked in partnership with architect Christoph Kohl in a joint office based in Berlin, Germany.

[1] most recently incorporated as “Krier ∙ Kohl Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH”.

Since June 2010, the renamed KK Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH has been backed by Rob Krier as senior advisor.

Krier first came to international attention with his 1975 book Stadtraum, which was translated into English under the title Urban Space in 1979,[1] reprinted as Stadtraum / Urban Space in 2005[2] Krier contributed theoretically and practically to several key projects, including Ritterstrasse (1977–80) and Rauchstrasse (1980) in Berlin, Breitenfurterstrasse in Vienna (1981–87), and Kirchsteigfeld in Potsdam (1992–97).