{"product_id":"ann-holyoke-lehmann-rob-krier-cite-judiciaire-luxembourg-9783936681376","title":"Rob Krier, Cité Judiciaire, Luxembourg","description":"With the 'Cité Judiciaire' Rob Krier, perhaps the only urban-planning\nartist among Germany’s architects, has, for the first time in\n30 years, completed a major urban project in his home country of\nLuxembourg. With regard to its authorship, this is a true 'family project\n'. With the significant contribution of his brother Léon to the\nmasterplan for the site, which is situated opposite his parental\nhome, Krier has, in his own words, fulfilled a 'youthful dream'.\nKrier’s son-in-law and office partner, Christoph Kohl was involved\nin the execution, as was his distant relation and Luxembourgian\ncontact architect, Jean Herr.\nThe concept reaches far beyond Luxembourg’s borders in its\nsignificance, as Krier’s crew has formulated something of a manifesto\nfor classical European urban architecture. Rather than a further\nhigh-rise for this European city, an entire quarter has been created\nwith public roads, lanes and squares in which the various judicial\ndepartments are distributed across eight buildings. The plot\nstructure, small-sized units and traditional plasterwork façades with\ntheir three-dimensional sculpted details all enhance the quarter’s\nvitality, as does the masterful treatment of spatial divisions.\nThis new approach is decisive in solving an ever more complex\nconstruction problem in contemporary urban planning: the integration\nof major administration complexes into the existing make-up\nof the city. In Luxembourg, the Kriers have succeeded in providing\nmodel evidence that, even today, this task can be achieved by\nmeans of top-quality architecture, without having to forfeit anything\nin terms of the modernity of equipment, the parsimony of economical\nexecution, the reduction of energy consumption, or in the basic\ndemands of public proximity.\nWith this publication, Rob Krier has created a novelty in architectural\nliterature. It is the first volume in sketchbook format of a series\nwhich document the design process from the first hand-drawn\nsketches, right through to realisation. Here, the entire spectrum of\nthe creative process and its irrepressible joy for variation are revealed.\nRob Krier is an architect and influential theorist for architecture\nand urban planning. Born and raised in Luxembourg, he moved to\nVienna after having studied in Munich and worked for Oswald Mathias\nUngers and Frei Otto. Today he resides in Berlin and Liguria.\nAfter teaching posts in Stuttgart and Lausanne, he was a professor\nof architecture at Vienna Technical University from 1976 to 1998\nand, in 1986, held a guest professorship at Yale University in New\nHaven, Mass. Besides his work as an architect, Rob Krier creates\nsculptures and statuary arts primarily for public spaces.","brand":"Edition Axel Menges","offers":[{"title":"Used - very good","offer_id":53397395013974,"sku":"9783936681376-V","price":8.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53318481936726,"sku":"9783936681376-G","price":45.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9783936681376_1.jpg?v=1781639109","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/ann-holyoke-lehmann-rob-krier-cite-judiciaire-luxembourg-9783936681376","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}