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April 08, 2005
Leon Krier
Leon Krier is supreme loverboy of the new urbanist/neo-traditional/classical set, which has made him whipping boy de jour for the lefty deconstructionist kids... who use the laughable 'he did that Albert Speer book' (nazi) line of crap. Although the classicalists return the volley with, if you don't like Krier, you must be a high modernist, brutalist, line of baloney. No, not in the least actually. There is good reason to problematize architecture as subjective sculpture, but surely it doesn't mean turning back three thousand years of thought, does it?
Because of his lightning rod quality, he's been popping up in the blogsphere as of late. But Leon Krier shouldn't be whipped for his his book projects, but for his ideas. Like this one:
ummm, yea, miscegenation bad, purity good...
All those doric columns just give such a mystical signification. To what you ask? Stop there interloper! Temples to the significance of classical ideas, forms, and a more distinguished geometry. Timeless temples to the publicam. Wait, is this a bad fantasy novel or am I in Medici Italy? Does it matter, really, with of all this pomp and circumstance? I'm waiting for the winged beast to drop a slaughtered Koolhaas Foster & Company on the steps of our temple to the honorable Lord Krier. Pt 2, we enter the city...
This image comes from his drawings for Poundbury, Dorset.
And a Krier joke... Funny, in all of his flatus pre-premillennial europhilia, Krier is not above a penis joke - but in true form, he links it to a Greek mythology. Gotta love his steadiness. Do you really hate the Gherkin Krier?
Posted by jmarston at April 8, 2005 09:41 AM
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Leon Krier is the best architect in the world
Posted by: Kestutis Abramikas, Lithuania at September 14, 2005 04:41 AM