Author: Leon Krier

Quotes

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

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

The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer function... vertical sprawl.

The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer function... vertical sprawl.

- 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

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

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

- Leon Krier

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