"You need a prince to make a town……" — Leon Krier
"You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal."
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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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The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which…
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