Leon Krier Quotes

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• Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine…
• Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.
• A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.
• The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.
• Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.
• Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.
• In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.
• 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…
• I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.
• If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides,…
• 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…
• 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.…
• The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So…
• 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.
• I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.
• 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. Gehry…
• 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…
• 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…
• As long as artists arbitrarily assume the right to decide what is or is not art, it is logical that the public will just as…
• 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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