Horizontal and vertical sprawl… are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture. Leon Krier Read Quote
You can’t have the finest buildings if they’re not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street. Leon Krier Read Quote
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. Leon Krier Read Quote
As is the case with all good things in life – love, good manners, language, cooking – personal creativity is required only rarely. Leon Krier Read Quote
I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism. Leon Krier Read Quote
As long as artists arbitrarily assume the right to decide what is or is not art, it is logical that the public will just as arbitrarily feel that they have the right to reject it. Leon Krier Read Quote
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. Leon Krier Read Quote
The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemic, the center of which is not President Eisenhower or Washington, D.C. but Mr. Gehry and the values he promulgates. Leon Krier Read Quote
I don’t build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build. Leon Krier Read Quote