Victor Gruen

Victor Gruen‘s source of wealth comes from being a architect. How much money is Victor Gruen worth at the age of 121 and what’s his real net worth now?

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Victor Gruen (born July 18, 1903) is famous for being architect. He currently resides in Austria. Inventor of the modern shopping mall and designer of the first outdoor pedestrian mall in the U.S. He influenced the urban-revitalization projects of Fort Worth, Texas, Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Fresno, California, during the 1950s and 1960s.

Victor Gruen is a Cancer and was born in The Year of the Rabbit

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Victor Gruen was born in Austria on Saturday, July 18, 1903 (G.I. Generation generation). He is 121 years old and is a Cancer. Victor David Gruen, born Viktor David Grünbaum (July 18, 1903 – February 14, 1980), was an Austrian-born architect best known as a pioneer in the design of shopping malls in the United States. He is also noted for his urban revitalisation proposals, described in his writings and applied in master plans such as for Fort Worth, Texas (1955), Kalamazoo, Michigan (1958) and Fresno, California (1965). An advocate of prioritizing pedestrians over cars in urban cores, he was also the designer of the first outdoor pedestrian mall in the United States, the Kalamazoo Mall. His firm designed over 50 shopping malls by the mid-1970s, including the 800,000 square-foot Southdale Mall in Edina, Minnesota, the nation’s first enclosed shopping mall.

He studied architecture at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. He was employed by Peter Behrens during the 1930s. He relocated to the United States after Germany conquered Austria in 1938. Victor Gruen is a member of Richest Celebrities and Architects.