"A city is not an accident but the……" — Leon Krier
"A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims."
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24 Quotes by Leon Krier
Leon Krier has 24 quotes on this site.
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Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them…
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Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.
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The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.
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Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.
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Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.
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In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.
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All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a…
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I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.
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If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand…
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Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended,…
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You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared…
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The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which…
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More Accident Quotes
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Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
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Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
— Henry Adams
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I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you…
— Roseanne Barr
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No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at…
— Joe Barton
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
— Renata Adler
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The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do,…
— Bono
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It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's…
— Bono
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I really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled…
— Kim Alexis
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