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
age fuel dinosaurs
Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.
artist order ideas
The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived.
ideas political towns
If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.
spiritual reality illustration
Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine the way in which we use or squander our energy, time, and land resources.
love-life creativity things-in-life
As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.
cities numbers limits
A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.
bottles fluidity liquid
The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.
intellectual needs want
You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.
towns planning architecture
Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.
age architecture spirit
Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.
analogies architecture models
For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.
cities facts skylines
In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.
law cities space
All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect on the quality of the public realm, enriching or impoverishing it in a lasting and radical manner. The architecture of the city and public space is a matter of common concern to the same degree as laws and language—they are the foundation of civility and civilisation.