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5 unusual facts about Léon Krier


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Rob Krier, Luxembourg architect, city planner and author; brother of Léon Krier

Léon Krier, Luxembourg architect, city planner and author; brother of Rob Krier

Léon Krier

Krier agreed with the viewpoint of the late Heinrich Tessenow that there is a strict relationship between the economic and cultural wealth of a city, on the one hand, and the limitation of its population on the other.

As projects get bigger, he goes on to argue, the buildings should not get bigger, but divide up; thus, for instance, in his unrealised scheme for a school in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (1978), France, the school became a “city in miniature”.

Paul Florian

From 1975 to 1978, Florian attended the Architectural Association School of Architecture, concentrating his studies in urban design under the direction of Léon Krier and earning a Diploma Degree.



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