"Surprisingly, the Eisenhower Memorial design contains almost none……" — Leon Krier
"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 an ungracious parking garage at Santa Monica Place, is resurrected for Eisenhower to screen the equally graceless facade of the Department of Education."
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Leon Krier
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24 Quotes by Leon Krier
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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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A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.
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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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More Almost None Quotes
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All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.
— Conrad Black
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by…
— Thomas A. Edison
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The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless…
— Raymond Chandler
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A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and…
— Reynolds Price
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Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may think you're crazy. It…
— Peace Pilgrim
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It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost…
— Norm Coleman
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Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in…
— C.D. Wright
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...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success,…
— Erich Fromm
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Nobody would know me from my own description of myself; which is why, when called upon (rarely, I grant) to…
— Claire Messud
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Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities…
— Stephen Kinzer
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If you left the country you were considered a traitor, ... Almost none of their names were mentioned when I…
— Luis J. Rodriguez
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