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Alex Krieger

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Alex Krieger

Alex Krieger is Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he has taught since 1977. An architect, planner, and author, he has directed design and planning projects in American and international cities, including the reconstruction of the Bund in Shanghai.

Former chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, and Director of the NEA Mayor's Institute on City Design, he remains an advisor to public and educational institutions, including two terms on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. His latest publication is City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present.

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Greenhorn: Episodes in an Immigrant's Life

Alex Krieger

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Greenhorn is a luminous memoir tracing Alex Krieger's journey from a displaced childhood, arriving in America at age nine as a child of Holocaust survivors, to a distinguished career as an architect, planner, and Harvard professor. With a poet's sensitivity and a craftsman's precision, Krieger reflects on the greenhorn's instinct to embrace the values of an adopted nation while remaining an eyewitness to its paradoxes. The result is a masterwork of memory and place that honors both allegiance to a new country and the origins that shaped him.

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