• Victor David Gruen, born Viktor David Grünbaum (July 18, 1903 – February 14, 1980), was an Austrian-American architect best known as a pioneer in the design...
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  • It is named after Austrian architect Victor Gruen, who disapproved of such manipulative techniques. The Gruen transfer is a psychological phenomenon...
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    Southdale Center (category Victor Gruen buildings)
    Buster's, AMC Theatres, Hennepin Service Center, and Life Time Athletic. Victor Gruen, the center's architect, designed the mall to challenge the "car-centric"...
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    architect and American immigrant Victor Gruen. This new generation of regional-size shopping centers began with the Gruen-designed Southdale Center, which...
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    Kalamazoo Mall (category Victor Gruen buildings)
    was designed by Victor Gruen, who three years earlier had designed the country's first enclosed shopping mall. A native of Austria, Gruen had been hired...
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    with different owners), then enclosed shopping malls starting with Victor Gruen's Southdale Center near Minneapolis in 1956. A shopping mall is a type...
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    Cherry Hill Mall (category Victor Gruen buildings)
    October 11, 1961 as the Cherry Hill Shopping Center, designed by architect Victor Gruen and built and managed by The Rouse Company. It was the first indoor,...
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    South Coast Plaza (category Victor Gruen buildings)
    late 1966 and Sears, the initial phase of the center was designed by Victor Gruen. It was built the same year as The Irvine Company's nearby Fashion Island...
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    Midtown Plaza (Rochester, New York) (category Victor Gruen buildings)
    indoor shopping mall designed by Victor Gruen and opened in 1962. Although it was primarily promoted as a retail space, Gruen's vision was for the plaza to...
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    architects from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Architect/planner Victor Gruen's plans to convert the site of the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair was...
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