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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-krier/surprisingly-the-eisenhower-memorial-design-contains-almost-none-of/)

[Leon Krier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-krier/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/297/leon-krier-22420_almost_surprisingly-the-eisenhower-memorial-des_784132.png)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-krier/against-expectations-i-was-charmed-by-gehry-s-edgemar-development/)

[Leon Krier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-krier/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd8/leon-krier-22420_against_against-expectations-i-was-charmed-by-ge_1157263.jpg)

## More by Leon Krier

> [The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-krier/the-problem-was-le-corbusier-was-a-genius-and-an-enormous-artist-but/)

[Leon Krier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-krier/)

> [If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-krier/if-a-dictator-takes-up-my-ideas-the-resulting-town-will-survive-the/)

[Leon Krier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-krier/)

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-krier/the-eisenhower-memorial-competition-and-project-have-stirred-a/)

[Leon Krier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-krier/)

> [I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-krier/i-grew-up-in-a-small-town-that-was-absolutely-a-perfect-embodiment-of/)

[Leon Krier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-krier/)

> [I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-krier/i-don-t-build-because-i-am-an-architect-i-can-make-true-architecture/)

[Leon Krier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-krier/)

> [Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-krier/lots-of-english-people-say-exactly-the-opposite-of-what-they-mean/)

[Leon Krier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-krier/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-krier/surprisingly-the-eisenhower-memorial-design-contains-almost-none-of/)

[Leon Krier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-krier/)

> [A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-krier/a-city-can-only-be-reconstructed-in-the-form-of-urban-quarters-a/)

[Leon Krier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-krier/)

> [Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-krier/modernist-architecture-and-town-planning-is-inimical-to-human-beings/)

[Leon Krier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-krier/)

> [Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-krier/viewed-from-a-certain-distance-and-under-good-light-even-an-ugly-city/)

[Leon Krier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-krier/)

> [You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-krier/you-can-t-have-the-finest-buildings-if-they-re-not-in-focus-they/)

[Leon Krier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-krier/)

> [Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-krier/tiredness-sets-a-natural-limit-to-what-a-human-being-is-prepared-to/)

[Leon Krier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-krier/)

> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-krier/against-expectations-i-was-charmed-by-gehry-s-edgemar-development/)

[Leon Krier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-krier/)

> [As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-krier/as-is-the-case-with-all-good-things-in-life-love-good-manners/)

[Leon Krier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-krier/)

> [For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leon-krier/for-architecture-nature-provides-only-indications-and-analogies-not/)

[Leon Krier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leon-krier/)

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