"Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the……" — Leon Krier

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

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24 Quotes by Leon Krier

Leon Krier has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them…
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.
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…
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…
Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended,…
You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared…
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 Age Quotes

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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