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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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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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.
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For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.
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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.
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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.
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The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.
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As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.
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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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Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.