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Alex Krieger Professor in Practice Department of Urban Planning and Design |
Profile
| Alex Krieger, FAIA, is Professor in Practice of Urban Design at the GSD, where he was Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design from 1998 to 2004. He currently teaches the Urban Design Proseminar and the studio: Reconnecting City & River: Vienna, Austria & the Danube. In previous semsters he has taught the seminar The Regional City: Values and Ethics in Contemporary Urbanism, the Detroit Research Seminar, the Detroit Studio, and the studio Planning in Paradise: Urban Redevelopment - Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a founding principal of Chan Krieger Sieniewicz.
His recent work includes urban design and planning projects
in Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Des Moines, Louisville, Minneapolis,
Mt. Lebanon, Pittsburgh, Providence, Washington, D.C., and Worcester.
An authority on the evolution of urban settlements, Krieger's publications include: Planning in Paradise: Urban Redevelopment Honolulu Hawaii (2003), Mapping Boston (1999), Design Concepts for Nippon-Daira and its Region (1993), Towns and Town Making Principles (1991), A Design Primer for Cities and Towns (1990), The Architecture of Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood (1988), Past Futures: Two Centuries of Imagining Boston (1985), and essays for various architecture, design, and planning periodicals. He is a contributing editor for Architecture magazine. Krieger has served as director of the National Endowment for
the Arts Mayors' Institute on City Design (1995-1998); commissioner
on the Boston Civic Design Commission (1988-97); design review
architect for the Providence Capital Center Commission (1991-98);
director of the National Leadership Institute for Planning Direction
(1998-present); and the vice president of the New England Holocaust
Memorial Committee (1989-98) during which Boston's award-winning
memorial was planned, designed and dedicated. |



Other projects include: master
plans for Boston's Seaport District and City Hall Plaza; campus
plans for Brandeis University, Knox College, and