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A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.
Leon Krier
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Leon Krier
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: April 7
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Architectural Theoretician
Urban Planner
Luxembourg City
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In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.
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I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.
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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.
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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.
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Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.
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Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture.
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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.
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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.
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Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.
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For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.
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