Accidents Quote by Leon Krier Download Open image “A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.” — Leon Krier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accidents Aim Cities City Coherent Coherent Visions Dreams Result Coherent Results Vision Visions Visions Aims
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting, and destructive. — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name,… — Georges Pompidou Copy Share Image
When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it. — Hugh Newell Jacobsen Copy Share Image
A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams. — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash… — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
A city is the pulsating product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's history, his struggle for freedom, creativity, genius-and his selfishness and… — Charles Abrams Copy Share Image
It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these moving, intersecting… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
“But ideal cities are very much the product of their own ages. Designed as complete urban statements, they bear the unmistakable imprint of their… — Anonymous 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
It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
I made out with a homeless guy by accident. I had no idea -- he was really tan, he had no shoes on. I… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can… — Annie Ernaux Copy Share Image
In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it up. (As… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
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