"The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred……" — Leon Krier
"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 and the values he promulgates."
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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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