Background
Arnold "Noldi" Schreck was born in Yakutsk, Siberia, Russia in 1921. His mother belonged to a large and wealthy Russian family, and her father was the owner of the shipyard.
Arnold "Noldi" Schreck was born in Yakutsk, Siberia, Russia in 1921. His mother belonged to a large and wealthy Russian family, and her father was the owner of the shipyard.
Student of architecture and art various schools in Switzerland, Italy and France.
Also an artist, painter and decorator, he became a citizen of Mexico. Schreck designed restaurants, residences, hotels, clubs, offices, shops, movie sets, ports and entire villages. His work is in Mexico, Europe, Africa, North America, and South America.
Schreck"s father died when he was only three years old.
Subsequently, the child and his mother traveled to Switzerland to meet Schreck"s paternal grandparents. Life in Switzerland was not easy.
He played soccer on the weekends, and was an apprentice in jewelry design, then furniture and architecture. After his career start in Switzerland, he worked in Italy, France and England, before coming to Beverly Hills, California, United States of America. Here he designed buildings before going to Mexico where he designed and constructed the Zona Rosa, earning himself the nickname, el arquitecto de la Zona Rosa ("the architect of Zona Rosa").
In 1966, an important event occurred in Schreck"s life at his Zona Rosa office when Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg visited him after traveling through Cabo San Lucas and Acapulco where he stayed in two buildings which were designed by Schreck.
Hohenlohe-Langenburg asked Shreck to design the Marbella Club Hotel"s Beach Club on the Costa del Sol, Spain. Schreck went on to design Puerto Banús, which was built by Banúson lieutenant became a destination visited by people from around the world.
Schreck was an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Mexican Architects.
Served with Swiss armed forces, 1940-1947. Club: Golf Avandaro Valle de Bravo (Mexico). Lodge: Rotary.
Married Ruth Schuler, September 5, 1953. Children– Veronica, Alexis.