Leon Krier
Leon Krier
Léon Krieris an architect, architectural theorist and urban planner. He is a representative of New Urbanism and New Classical Architecture. Krier was the first laureate of the Driehaus Architecture Prize in 2003. Léon Krier is the younger brother of architect Rob Krier...
NationalityLuxembourger
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth7 April 1946
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Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history the size of rural or urban communities.
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I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.
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The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer function... vertical sprawl.
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As long as artists arbitrarily assume the right to decide what is or is not art, it is logical that the public will just as arbitrarily feel that they have the right to reject it.
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The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemic, the center of which is not President Eisenhower or Washington, D.C. but Mr. Gehry and the values he promulgates.
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Surprisingly, the Eisenhower Memorial design contains almost none of the known Gehry-box of tricks. His giant etched chain-link curtain, first applied in 1979 to hide an ungracious parking garage at Santa Monica Place, is resurrected for Eisenhower to screen the equally graceless facade of the Department of Education.
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Against expectations I was charmed by Gehry's Edgemar development, which housed the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and positively awed by the Bilbao Guggenheim. That Gehry is a great artist I have no doubt, but talent and determination are no warrant against confusion, nor are they a guaranty to produce great art.
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You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.
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Why should the Eisenhower memorial be over twice the size of WWII Memorial? Why should it be so vast as to comfortably house two Lincoln Memorials, two Washington Monuments, and two Jefferson Memorials - all six at once?
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Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.
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A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.
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Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.
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I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.
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Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.