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The Architecture of Community
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 486

The Architecture of Community

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-05-08
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  • Publisher: Island Press

Leon Krier is one of the best-known—and most provocative—architects and urban theoreticians in the world. Until now, however, his ideas have circulated mostly among a professional audience of architects, city planners, and academics. In The Architecture of Community, Krier has reconsidered and expanded writing from his 1998 book Architecture: Choice or Fate. Here he refines and updates his thinking on the making of sustainable, humane, and attractive villages, towns, and cities. The book includes drawings, diagrams, and photographs of his built works, which have not been widely seen until now. With three new chapters, The Architecture of Community provides a contemporary road map for des...

Drawing for Architecture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 247

Drawing for Architecture

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-07-10
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

Drawings, doodles, and ideograms argue with ferocity and wit for traditional urbanism and architecture. Architect Léon Krier's doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments in images, without the circumlocutions of prose. Drawn with wit and grace, these clever sketches do not try to please or flatter the architectural establishment. Rather, they make an impassioned argument against what Krier sees as the unquestioned doctrines and unacknowledged absurdities of contemporary architecture. Thus he shows us a building bearing a suspicious resemblance to Norman Foster's famous London “gherkin” as an example of “priapus hubris” (threatened by detumescence and “priapus nemesis”); he ...

Architecture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Architecture

This polemic is essential reading for anyone converned with the state and direction of architecture and urban planning today and will provake wide-ranging discussion.

Leon Krier - Profile 54 (Paper Only)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

Leon Krier - Profile 54 (Paper Only)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1984-01-15
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  • Publisher: Wiley

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Get Your House Right
  • Language: en

Get Your House Right

"In this comprehensive and authoratative guide, Marianne Cusato explains why so many of today's traditional-style buildings miss the mark; describes the essential elements of a house, how they work together, and how to use them appropriately; and shows how to avoid common mistakes at every stage of the design and construction process"--Cover, p. 2.

The Architectural Tuning of Settlements
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 40

The Architectural Tuning of Settlements

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Architectural Design
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 866

Architectural Design

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1963
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Léon Krier, Houses, Palaces, Cities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 142

Léon Krier, Houses, Palaces, Cities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1984
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Leon Krier
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Leon Krier

Leon Krier's most important essays and all his projects, including his proposals for Poundbury near Dorchester, and masterplans for Luxemburg's New Quarter and Washington DC, and the new town of Atlantis on the island of Tenerife have been brought together in this work.

Architecture, Urbanism and History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 32

Architecture, Urbanism and History

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1985
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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