About Lucius Burckhardt
Lived 1925 – 2003 (aged 78). Lucius Burckhardt was a Swiss sociologist, university teacher and economist.
Lucius Burckhardt (March 12, 1925 in Davos – August 26, 2003 in Basel) was a Swiss sociologist and economist. He was an important thinker in architectural theory and design theory and the founder of strollology.
Legacy Burckhardt's strollological methods were taken up by his student, the German artist Gerhard Lang, whose Mobile Zebra Crossing (1993), a procession with a portable pedestrian crossing through the streets of Kassel, was conceived in honour of Burckhardt as the founder of the discipline.
Publications Lucius Burckhardt Writings. Rethinking Man-made Environments (Hrsg. Jesko Fezer / Martin Schmitz), Springer (Ambra), Wien/New York, 2012.
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Swiss sociologist (1925-2003)
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Lucius Burckhardt was born on 12 March 1925 in Davos.
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Lucius Burckhardt died on 26 August 2003 in Basel.
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Lucius Burckhardt was a sociologist, university teacher and economist.
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Lucius Burckhardt was Swiss.
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