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. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution.… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good.… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
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.… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
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… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
