Léon Krier   United States   While in Europe the architects face the problem of the conservation of heritage, in the new American cities the challenge is to create monuments and singular buildings ex novo to accentuate their urban image. In Windsor, Florida – a city designed in

Léon Krier   Spain   "The most important thing in life is to never make compromises (...) because accepting compromises means losing. I have seen it in all my friends who build." We have to thank Léon Krier for setting the record straight from the beginning: being, as he

Léon Krier   United States   If building one’s own home is one of the most difficult exercises, in the case of Leon Krier the exercise is even more complicated. After 18 years in the profession as a permanent polemicist, writing and describing what architecture should and should

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The Luxembourg-born architect, writer, and draftsman Léon Krier, one of the key drivers of the postmodern movement, passed away on 17 June in Palma de Mallorca, where he had been living since 2013 with his partner Irene P. Stillman, in a house near t

An architect, urban planner, theorist, and critic, León Krier was a key figure of New Urbanism for his staunch defense of traditional architecture and the preindustrial city. Born in Luxembourg in 1946, he studied in Stuttgart and worked in the offi

The new head of the United Kingdom is an advocate of traditional architecture and has promoted it in his estates in Cornwall through a development, Poundbury, with Léon Krier as principal advisor. During his time as Prince of Wales he wrote texts in

Léon Krier   Against archaeology of the kind that is based on a superstitious respect for the ruin, Krier advocates the scientific and evocative reconstruction of monuments of the past.

Léon Krier   Robert Stern’s work and influence as an architect, urbanist, historian, publisher, cultural patron, and educator are unique in the panorama of contemporary culture, breathtaking in their sheer output, consistent in their Olympian quality and professi

Léon Krier   In a foreword to the Spanish edition of his book ‘The Architecture of Community’, Léon Krier condemns the excesses of recent urban development.

Jorge Sainz   The question poses a whole moral dilemma: “Can a war criminal be a great artist?” Léon Krier says yes: that Albert Speer was guilty of the Nazi horror, and was also a magnificent architect. To demonstrate that he was a magnificent architect, Krier pu

El alcalde de Roma, Gianni Alemanno, ha presentado el proyecto de remodelación urbana de Tor Bella Monaca, un degradado suburbio al sureste de la ciudad, que se convertirá en una ‘metrópolis policéntrica’ con todos los usos y servicios integrados, y

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Krier regresa. El arquitecto, escritor y dibujante luxemburgués, que fue uno de los protagonistas del movimiento posmoderno, vuelve a las trincheras de la polémica con dos libros-manifiesto, que recopilan sus críticas gráficas y literarias de la mode

Léon Krier   La marea de concienciación ecológica que inunda los medios es simplemente consecuencia de la larga ignorancia del tema. El Club de Roma, el Global 2000 Report para el Presidente de los Estados Unidos y textos fundacionales como Entropía, de Jeremy Ri

David García Montes   Componiendo un lujoso puzzle tridimensional, los cuatro volúmenes que dan cuenta de la actividad creativa de la arquitecta anglo-iraquí —obras, proyectos, textos y dibujos— se insertan en un paralelepípedo de metacrilato rojo que compendia una vida c

León Krier On 22 March, the inaugural Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture was presented to Léon Krier in a ceremony held at the Art Institute of Chicago. Founded by the businessman Richard H. Driehaus with the University of Notre Dame, and furn

Joan Ockman   Todo el mundo sabe que Philip Johnson y Henry-Russell Hitchcock vaciaron la arquitectura moderna europea de su contenido social y cultural en una exposición celebrada en 1932 en el Museo de Arte Moderno de Nueva York. Su intención era proporcionarle

Léon Krier   Cambridge  2009  
MIT Press   - 231 Pages 

Léon Krier   Washington  2009  
Island Press   - 459 Pages