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Lars Lerup is the Harry K. and Albert K. Smith Professor of
Architecture and the Dean Emeritus at Rice School of Architecture,
Houston Texas and Professor Emeritus of University of California at
Berkeley. He was awarded Doctor honoris causa in technology by Lund
University, Sweden in 2001.

Born in Sweden, he holds degrees in engineering (Sweden), architecture
(UC Berkeley) and urban design (GSD, Harvard). Lerup has written several
books: Villa Prima Facie 1976, Building the Unfinished 1977 (also
published in German), Planned Assaults 1987 (also published in Chinese),
After the City 2000, and some fifty essays in international magazines.
His most recent book One Million Acres and No Zoning was published in
2010.

Lerup's art and design work includes drawings, paintings, architectural
projects and competitions for new towns (Taipei, Taiwan), buildings,
houses (California, Texas and Switzerland) and furniture. His work has
been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, Paris,
Berlin, Rome, Zurich, Moscow and Stockholm.

Lerup was elected Swedish American by Vasa Orden in 2004. He was the
Harold W. Brunner Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome
2009-10.