ABSTRACT
Victor Gruen was an Austrian-born architect who studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste of Vienna, where he continued to practise in an architecture firm and in cabaret shows until he emigrated. At the First Urban Design Conference in 1956, among the urban projects discussed," there was also the urban renewal of the Centre of Fort Worth, designed by one of the most important commercial and urban designers of the last century: Victor Gruen. As Josep Lluis Sert affirmed in his introduction to the Urban Design Conference in 1956, "Urban Design is the part of city planning that deals with the physical form of the city. The interest in three-dimensional design did not concern only the physical complexity and overlapping flows inside the urban structure. It was also imbedded with theoretical, social, historical and functional connotations and interpretations. The three-dimensional design and plastic expression were aimed at reconquering the civic values of a traditionalist image of the organic city.
