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Technology & Engineering
Victor Gruen
Who
Victor Gruen · Technology & Engineering
What
Modern Enclosed Shopping Mall
When
1903, Vienna, Austria — 1980, Vienna, Austria
Where
Austria · United States
Biography
Victor Gruen is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Modern Enclosed Shopping Mall
How & why
Victor Gruen designed Southdale Center in Edina, Minnesota (1956), the first fully enclosed, climate-controlled shopping mall, shaping postwar American retail and urbanism. Born Viktor Grünbaum into a Jewish family in Vienna, he fled the Nazi Anschluss in 1938 and emigrated to the United States before returning to Vienna late in life.
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Source: Southdale Center architect
Contributions & Sources
Modern Enclosed Shopping Mall
1956
Source: Southdale Center architect
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