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… — 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
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.… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
