Léon Krier

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Léon Krier


Born
in City of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
April 07, 1946

Died
June 07, 2025


Léon Krier was a Luxembourgish architect, architectural theorist, and urban planner, a prominent critic of modernist architecture and advocate of New Classical architecture and New Urbanism. Krier combined an international architecture and planning practice with writing and teaching. He was well known for his master plan for Poundbury, in Dorset, England. He was the younger brother of architect Rob Krier. ...more

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Architecture: Choice or Fate

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Leon Krier: Architecture & ...

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Leon Krier: Houses, Palaces...

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The Architectural Tuning of...

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Atlantis

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Leon Krier: Galerie der Sta...

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“A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.”
Léon Krier, The Architecture of Community

“Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.”
Leon Krier, The Architecture of Community

“Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.”
Leon Krier, The Architecture of Community

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