Vilmos Krén

Landscape photo from Tumamah Nature Park

Vilmos Krén (born October 30, 1937 in Budapest ) is a German landscape architect of Hungarian origin.

From 1953 to 1955 he attended the technical center for agriculture and horticulture in Eszterháza ( Fertőd ), Hungary , where he obtained his university entrance qualification. After his escape from Hungary in 1956, he studied at the Technical University of Hanover , Department of Land Care at the Faculty of Horticulture and Land Culture, where he received his diploma in 1966.

Following his work in the Lower Saxony State Administration Office, Nature Conservation and Landscape Management in Hanover, in 1971 he entered into a partnership with the newly founded planning group Bödeker, Boyer, Wagenfeld and Partner in Düsseldorf and took over the management of the landscape planning / green space department.

In addition to his work as a freelance landscape architect, he was a lecturer for green space and landscape planning at the University of Essen from 1978 to 1983 .

From 1991 until his retirement in 2002 he had his own office under the name “Environmental and Landscape Planning” in Mettmann and Hilden .

Until his retirement in 2002, he was a member of the Association of German Landscape Architects (BDLA) and of the NRW Chamber of Architects .

His areas of work included landscape plans, planning for open space development, environmental impact studies, ecological planning, landscape conservation specialist contributions and implementation plans as well as open space plans.

His work includes the Thumamah Nature Park in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia, and environmental impact studies and landscape maintenance plans for the A 46 and A 57 .

In 1973, together with his partners Richard Bödeker, Armin Boyer, Horst Wagenfeld and Klaus Steinhauer, he was awarded the sponsorship prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists in the field of architecture .

In 1976 the group received the Rosenthal Studio Prize.

In 1989 he and his partners received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for Islamic architecture for the Diplomatic Quarter - Riyadh project .

Vilmos Krén is married and has two children. He lives in Germany and Hungary.

Publications

• R. Bödeker, A.Boyer, V. Krén, K. Steinhauer, H. Wagenfeld: Public playgrounds in cities and communities. On behalf of the Minister of the Interior NW. Publication series of the state and urban development research of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Stadtentwicklung-Städtebau, BdII.001, Dortmund 1974, 147 pages
• Krén, V .: Accompanying landscape conservation plan A 31 section Hexbachtal, magazine "Garden and Landscape" 1/1976, pp. 20-25
• Krén, V .: Stadt und Landschaftsraum Xanten, magazine "Garten und Landschaft" 4/1977, pp. 218–221
• Krén V .: Kempen am Niederrhein, magazine "Garden and Landscape" 4/1977, pp. 224–225
• Krén V., J. Fichtner: A 51 - Aachen / Würselen. Edited by the Rhineland Regional Association, Road Construction, Cologne 1978, 58 pages
• V. Krén, J. Fichtner: Road structure in the landscape - instructions for taking into account the needs of nature conservation and landscape management in road planning. An investigation in the delivery of the Minister for Economy, Medium-Sized Enterprises and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, 126 pages - 1st edition, published by the Rhineland Regional Association, Cologne 1980
• Krén, V .: Landscaping accompanying plan for the preliminary construction design with route comparison using the example of the B 256, section Bergisch-Born / Hückeswagen / Mühlenberg, magazine "Garden and Landscape" 5/1981, pp. 379–387
• Krén, V., Fichtner, J., Birkigt, B., König, W.:Environmental compatibility study and landscape maintenance plan for L 288n. Straße, Landschaft, Umwelt, Ed. Landschaftsverband Rheinland, Straßenbau, Cologne 1980/1981, pp. 75–99
• Krén, V., J. Graf: Green space planning in the state capital Düsseldorf, magazine "Das Gartenamt" 36/1987, pp. 545–551.
• Vilmos Krén, Thumamah Nature Park, “Garden and Landscape” magazine 08/89, pp. 48–52.
• Krén, V .: Biotope Management Plan Neandertal, magazine "Garden and Landscape" 1/1990, pp. 59–63

Web links

• World Database on Protected Areas - Ath-Thumamah Managed Nature Reserve (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Every now and then I miss the rain" - NRZ.de, published December 2, 2008
2. ↑ "AgaKhan Award for architecture"
3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ "Aga Khan Prize 1989 for the landscape planning of the diplomatic quarter in Riyadh" - magazine "Garden and Landscape" 12/89
5. ↑ "Public playgrounds in cities and municipalities"
6. ↑ "Road structure in the landscape"
7. ↑ http://portail.documentation.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/crdaln/vuedocpdf?id=Cdu-0111502&print=true  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ "Green space planning in the state capital Düsseldorf"

Coordinates: 24 ° 40 ′ 52 ″  N , 46 ° 37 ′ 22 ″  E