Top 18 Quotes by Leon Krier

About Leon Krier

These are some quotes by Luxembourger author Leon Krier Architect, who was born on April 7, 1946.

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.

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

Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history the size of rural or urban communities.

Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history the size of rural or urban communities.

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.

Leon Krier

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

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

Leon Krier

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

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

Leon Krier

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

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

Leon Krier

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

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.

Leon Krier

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