Leon Krier

The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is…

— Leon Krier

If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a…

— 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.…

— Leon Krier

I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.

— Leon Krier

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

— Leon Krier

Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.

— 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…

— Leon Krier

A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized…

— Leon Krier

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there…

— Leon Krier

Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

— Leon Krier

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

— Leon Krier

Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all…

— 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…

— Leon Krier

As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only…

— Leon Krier

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

— Leon Krier

All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or…

— Leon Krier

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

— Leon Krier

Why should the Eisenhower memorial be over twice the size of WWII Memorial? Why should it be so vast as to comfortably…

— Leon Krier

Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible…

— Leon Krier

The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer…

— Leon Krier

Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.

— Leon Krier

Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.

— Leon Krier

In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

— Leon Krier

As long as artists arbitrarily assume the right to decide what is or is not art, it is logical that the public…

— Leon Krier

The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.

— Leon Krier