Leon Krier Quotes & Sayings
18 most famous Leon Krier quotes and sayings (architect). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.”
“Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.”
“Against expectations I was charmed by Gehry's Edgemar development, which housed the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and positively awed by the Bilbao Guggenheim. That Gehry is a great artist I have no doubt, but talent and determination are no warrant against confusion, nor are they a guaranty to produce great art.”
“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.”
“I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.”
“You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.”
“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.”
“Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.”
“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.”
“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.”
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