Leon Krier Quotes

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in any kind of writing, we have to learn to allow ourselves to approach it in a contemplative way.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple.

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

I do not write, I build.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

I think a construction project for me is like writing a novel. I can't do the project unless I can envision sort of the whole structure and see what the end result might be.

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.