Lucius Burckhardt (March 12, 1925 in
Davos
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Davos (, ; or ; rm, ; archaic it, Tavate) is an Alpine resort town and a municipality in the Prättigau/Davos R ...
– August 26, 2003 in
Basel
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, neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...
) was a
Swiss
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* the adjectival form of Switzerland
* Swiss people
Places
* Swiss, Missouri
* Swiss, North Carolina
*Swiss, West Virginia
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Other uses
*Swiss-system tournament, in various games and sports
*Swiss Internation ...
sociologist and
economist
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. He was an important thinker in
Architectural theory
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and
Design theory
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History
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and the founder of
strollology
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.
Publications
*''Lucius Burckhardt Writings. Rethinking Man-made Environments'' (Hrsg. Jesko Fezer / Martin Schmitz), Springer (Ambra), Wien/New York, 2012.
External links
www.lucius-burckhardt.orgbiography, texts
personal page of Lucius Burckhardts on the server of the university of Kassel, Germany*
books by Lucius Burckhardt at Martin Schmitz publishers
1925 births
2003 deaths
Swiss sociologists
Swiss economists
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