Text in English & German. 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.
Rob Krier, is an exception. Since the beginning of his career in
construction, he has always seen his love of art as a vocation --
one which he nurtures parallel to his work. Fine art should 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, moving them to thoughtful reflection. In his Pictorial
Journal 19541971, Rob Krier describes in compelling words and
pictures how he came to have a twin passion for fine art and
architecture and told of his grammar school years in Echternach,
his studies in Munich and his first taste of professional life with
Oswald Mathias Ungers and Frei Otto. In his Pictorial Journal
19541971, which covers the period of Krier's work as a lecturer and
assistant to Prof. Johannes Uhl at Stuttgart University, the text
is restricted to a minimum. The pictures are less colourful, more
composed. The 'daily scribbles' dominate -- mainly sketches and
drawings of people and animals, buildings, landscapes, objects and
also fantasies. The volume is rounded off with a detailed resume.
Born and raised in Luxembourg, Krier moved to Vienna after having
studied in Munich and worked for Oswald Mathias Ungers and Frei
Otto. After teaching posts in Stuttgart and Lausanne, he was a
professor at the Technische Universitat in Vienna from 1976 to 1998
and, in 1986, held a guest professorship at Yale University in New
Haven, Mass. Krier has developed urban-design concepts for
Stuttgart, Vienna, Berlin, Amiens, Montpellier, Leeds, Gothenburg,
Lodz, Amsterdam, Den Haag and many other cities. Projects with
which he was first able to translate his vision of a spatial
concept, such as Rauchstrasse in Berlin, Breitenfurterstrasse in
Vienna or Ritterstrasse with Schinkelplatz in Berlin, repeatedly
found their place in international publications.
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