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Rob Krier-Figures - A Pictorial Journal 2000-2002 (German, Hardcover)
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Text in German & English. The architect is at all times also an
artist. How otherwise would he be able to tame the
three-dimensionality of space and subdue the urges of physics and
structural mechanics with the creations of his fantasy? This
creativity is however mostly restricted purely to its own field. In
this respect, Rob Krier, born in 1938 in Grevenmacher, Luxembourg,
is indeed the proverbial exception that proves the rule. Besides
his actual profession, which demands his daily attention, Krier has
for years also made a vocation of his love of art, one which he
nurtures parallel to his work. Fine art could stand in dialogue
with architecture and it is Krier's ambition to have iconographic
themes brought into the latter, so that they might speak equally to
both the occupants of a building and to bystanders and move them to
thoughtful reflection. In the works of Mies van der Rohe it is not
rare that one finds naturalistic figures from, for example,
Aristide Maillol or Wilhelm Lehmbruck -- as an anthropomorphic
contrast to the strict geometry of the architecture, notes Rob
Krier in the comments on his journal. If one is already aware of
the realisation of his masterful architectural accomplishments
through projects such as Potsdam-Kirchsteigfeld (1991 to 1997), De
Resident in The Hague (1993-2001), Noorderhof in Amsterdam
(1994-99), Veste Brandevoort near Helmond (since 1995), Citadel
Broekpolder near Beverwijk (2000-04), or the Cite Judiciaire in
Luxembourg (1992-2008) -- be assured, Krier's artistic skills are
in no way inferior to his architectural work. Quite the contrary:
as a sculptor and illustrator, too, Rob Krier brings together
extraordinarily musical qualities and incorporates them into his
work: his bronze The Jumper was erected in Montpellier in 2004, the
Cowering Woman ten years earlier on Berlin's Friedrichstrasse, the
four metre-high duo Bosch i Alsina and Papasseit on Moll de la
Fusta in Barcelona in 1992.
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