The Fear of Backwardness and How to Cure It

Krier, Leon

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The Fear of Backwardness and How to Cure It

dc.contributor.author	Krier, Leon
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Architecture	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2013-04-15T16:39:26Z
dc.date.available	2013-04-15T16:39:26Z
dc.date.issued	2013-01-23
dc.description	Presented on January 23, 2013 from 6:00 pm-7:30 pm in the Reinsch-Pierce Family Auditorium on the Georgia Tech campus.	en_US
dc.description	Léon Krier is a renowned architect, urbanist and neo-traditional theorist from Brussels. He studied Architecture at the University of Stuttgart. He is the architect of the Prince of Wales’s model town of Poundbury in Dorset, England and is considered by many to be the intellectual godfather of the New Urbanism movement in the US. Mr. Krier has been a consultant to His Royal Highness, Charles, The Prince of Wales, since 1988. From 1968 to 1974, Mr. Krier collaborated with architect James Stirling in London. He then became Professor of Architecture and Town Planning, at the Architectural Association and Royal College of Arts, London, and Professor of Architecture at Princeton University and University of Virginia. From 1990 to 1991, he was Davenport Professor at Yale University, returning again to Yale in 2002 as Eero Saarinen Professor. He is a founding Trustee of the New School for Traditional Architecture & Urbanism, Charleston. Mr. Krier has been published in Architectural Design, Architectural Review and A+U, and is the author of several books, including Architecture: Choice or Fate (1998), published in 8 languages and winner of the Silver Medal of the Académie Française. He is the recipient of the Berlin Prize for Architecture (1977), the Je.erson Memorial Gold Medal (1985), the Chicago American Institute of Architects Award (1987), and the European Culture Prize (1995). In 2003, he became the inaugural recipient of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical and Traditional Architecture. Mr. Krier has been art director and designer for Italian furniture designer Giorgetti, since 1990. He is the younger brother of noted architect Rob Krier.
dc.description	Runtime: 68:34 minutes
dc.description.abstract	Inaugural Academy of Medicine lecturer, famed architect and urban planner Leon Krier, speaks on "The Fear of Backwardness and How to Cure it".	en_US
dc.embargo.terms	null	en_US
dc.format.extent	68:34 minutes
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/46792
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Architecture Lecture Series
dc.subject	Architecture	en_US
dc.subject	Building	en_US
dc.title	The Fear of Backwardness and How to Cure It	en_US
dc.type	Moving Image
dc.type.genre	Lecture
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