Leon Krier Quotes

• Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine the way in which we use or squander our energy, time, and land resources.

  Leon Krier

  Spiritual, Reality, Land

  Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.90, Papadakis Publisher

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• A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.

  Leon Krier

  Numbers, Cities, Limits

  "The City Within the City" by Leon Krier, zeta.math.utsa.edu. November 1977.

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• A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.

  Leon Krier

  Cities, Vision, Results

  Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.91, Papadakis Publisher

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• All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect on the quality of the public realm, enriching or impoverishing it in a lasting and radical manner. The architecture of the city and public space is a matter of common concern to the same degree as laws and language—they are the foundation of civility and civilisation.

  Leon Krier

  Law, Cities, Space

  Leon Krier (2009). “The Architecture of Community”, p.439, Island Press

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• Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

  Leon Krier

  Towns, Planning, Architecture

  "The godfather of urban soul". Interview with Peter Hetherington, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2006.

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• Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.

  Leon Krier

  Age, Culture, Fuel

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• For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

  Leon Krier

  Analogies, Architecture, Models

  Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.32, Papadakis Publisher

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• I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

  Leon Krier

  Architecture, Architect, I Can

  Leon Krier (2011). “The Architecture of Community”, Island Press

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• In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

  Leon Krier

  Cities, Skylines, Facts

  Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.83, Papadakis Publisher

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

  Leon Krier

  Age, Spirit, Architecture

  Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.71, Papadakis Publisher

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• 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.

  Leon Krier

  Intellectual, Needs, Want

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• As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

  Leon Krier

  Love Life, Creativity, Things In Life

  Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.24, Papadakis Publisher

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• The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived.

  Leon Krier

  Artist, Order, Ideas

  "The godfather of urban soul". Interview with Peter Hetherington, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2006.

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• The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.

  Leon Krier

  Doe, Bottles, Fluidity

  Leon Krier (2009). “The Architecture of Community”, p.70, Island Press

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• Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

  Leon Krier

  Distance, Light, Land

  Leon Krier (2009). “The Architecture of Community”, p.75, Island Press

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• Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.

  Leon Krier

  Limited Resources, Fundamentals, Problem

  Leon Krier (2009). “The Architecture of Community”, p.136, Island Press

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• If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.

  Leon Krier

  Ideas, Political, Towns

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• Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.

  Leon Krier

  Mean, Opposites, People

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