All Leon Krier Quotes
- 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… Cities
- Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land. Certain
- A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims. Accident
- The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains. Affect
- Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop. Age
- Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence. Cannot Solve
- In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional. Accept
- 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… All
- I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build. Architect
- 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,… Architecture
- 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… Architecture
- 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.… Architect
- 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… Adapt
- 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. Changes
- I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism. Absolutely
- 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… Center
- 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… Almost None
- 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… All
- 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… Arbitrarily
- As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely. All
- Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history the… All
- Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean. English
- Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture. Age
- A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large… Autonomous