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Leon Krier is a renowned architect, born on April 7, 1946. His works are characterized by a classical style, deeply influenced by European traditional architecture. Krier's architectural philosophy emphasizes sustainability and community values, and his design projects are spread across the globe.

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

I Can Architecture Architect

Book:The Architecture of Community

Source: The Architecture of Community

“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.”

Ifs Ideas Political Left Social Towns Architecture Regimes Dictator Modernism Political Systems Left And Right Social Good Totalitarian Regimes Classicism

Author:Leon Krier

“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.”

Humans Human Beings Evolution Concepts Towns Architecture Planning Something New

Author: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.”

Ifs Want Needs Normal Projects Intellectual Towns Architecture Making Money Architect Utopian Developers Sponsors

Author:Leon Krier

“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.”

Ideas Problem Artist Order Car Genius Solutions Enormous Paris Resolve Dictator Bloody Centre Demolish

Author:Leon Krier

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

Models Architecture Indication Analogies

Book:Architecture: Choice Or Fate

Source: Architecture: Choice Or Fate

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

Language Creativity Cases Cooking Good Things Manners Love Life Good Man Things In Life Good Manners Good Things In Life

Book:Architecture: Choice Or Fate

Source: Architecture: Choice Or Fate

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

Age Culture Fuel Fossils Dinosaurs Fossil Fuel Vertical Horizontal Synthetic

Author:Leon Krier

“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.”

Form Numbers Cities Limits Quarters Urban Autonomous Small Numbers Federation Periphery

Author:Leon Krier

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

People Mean Opposites

Author:Leon Krier

“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.”

Way Giving Use Reality Spiritual Values Energy Cities Land Materials Resources Determine Landscape Tangible Illustration

Book:Architecture: Choice Or Fate

Source: Architecture: Choice Or Fate

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

Looks Light Certain Cities Land Distance Ugly Promised Land

Book:The Architecture of Community

Source: The Architecture of Community

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

Results Cities Vision Aim Accidents

Book:Architecture: Choice Or Fate

Source: Architecture: Choice Or Fate

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

Doe Form Bottles Liquid Rigidity Fluidity

Book:The Architecture of Community

Source: The Architecture of Community

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

Age Spirit Architecture Incarnation

Book:Architecture: Choice Or Fate

Source: Architecture: Choice Or Fate

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

Humans Problem Existence Resources Fundamentals Solve Human Intelligence Limited Resources

Book:The Architecture of Community

Source: The Architecture of Community

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

Facts Cities Accepting Plans Architecture Traditional Skylines

Book:Architecture: Choice Or Fate

Source: Architecture: Choice Or Fate

“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.”

Source: The Architecture of Community

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Born: April 7, 1946
Known for: Architect
Quotes: 18

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