5 Leon Krier Quotes for You to Enjoy

Leon Krier

Architect

Born: Apr 7, 1946

Architecture Art Build Car Will You

Related authors: Antoni Gaudi Frank Gehry Frank Lloyd Wright Louis Kahn Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Maya Lin Walter Gropius Zaha Hadid

Why should the Eisenhower memorial be over twice the size of WWII Memorial? Why should it be so vast as to comfortably house two Lincoln Memorials, two Washington Monuments, and two Jefferson Memorials - all six at once? Leon Krier

Once Monuments Memorial Memorials Vast Over House Comfortably WWII Lincoln Six Size Eisenhower Should Jefferson Washington Twice Why Two

I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism. Leon Krier

Embodiment Small Perfect Absolutely Small Town New Town Up Grew

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

Genius Problem Problems Car Resolve Enormous Solution Tried Drew Something Paris He Idea Conceived Most Demolish Bloody Dictators Artist Order Which Centre Even Adapt

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. Leon Krier

Education Hide First Design Giant Tricks Memorial Facade Parking Almost Contains Known Equally None His Surprisingly Department Screen Curtain Eisenhower Place Santa Santa Monica Garage Monica Applied

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

Own Must City Only Small Federation Periphery Within Limit Quarter Quarters Form Center Autonomous Urban Large Each Number

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