Apr 13
“James Stirling’s Island Revisited” _ 13.04.2026 _ SK
A collage of axonometric drawings by James Stirling and Leon Krier.
Drawings source: https://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/79
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“James Stirling’s Island Revisited” _ 13.04.2026 _ SK
A collage of axonometric drawings by James Stirling and Leon Krier.
Drawings source: https://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/79
Léon Krier's Atlantis at Sunrise by Carl Laubin
Leon Krier (1946-2025), R.I.P.
Leon Krier, photographed in 2018 in Poundbury. (Wikipedia) Léon Krier died yesterday morning in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, aged 79. Krier often spent time in Spain with Andrés Duany, another popular classicist. Krier was born in the capital city of Luxembourg after World War II, and observed its degradation thereafter at the hands of modernist architects. His design education was very brief; he…
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Another giant died today.
Léon Krier (1946-2025) has left us at the too young age of 79. He was one of the most influential figures of architecture and traditional urbanism in the contemporary world.
Visionary, theorist, and a tireless practitioner of architecture rooted in the human scale and enduring beauty, Krier devoted his life to defending livable, human-scale, orderly and truly sustainable cities.
His work - composed of books, essays, urban projects and buildings - remains as a beacon for all who believe in the harmony between tradition, nature and civilization.
Author of powerful ideas and deeply critical of the dehumanization of modern architecture, Krier inspired generations with his intellectual clarity and commitment to authenticity.
His legacy will be eternal.
Rest in peace.
Another giant died today.
Léon Krier (1946-2025) has left us at the too young age of 79. He was one of the most influential figures of architecture and traditional urbanism in the contemporary world.
Visionary, theorist, and a tireless practitioner of architecture rooted in the human scale and enduring beauty, Krier devoted his life to defending livable, human-scale, orderly and truly sustainable cities.
His work - composed of books, essays, urban projects and buildings - remains as a beacon for all who believe in the harmony between tradition, nature and civilization.
Author of powerful ideas and deeply critical of the dehumanization of modern architecture, Krier inspired generations with his intellectual clarity and commitment to authenticity.
His legacy will be eternal.
Rest in peace.
Architecture of community
Drawing by Leon Krier. Below is the foreward to Léon Krier’s book The Architecture of Community (2009), which I posted on my blog in 2020. Born in Luxembourg, Krier, is, of course, among the foremost thinkers about architecture and city planning. Above his foreward I posted my favorite from his collection of drawings that illustrate principles via the conundrums faced by architects and city…
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Rob Krier died yesterday, the elder of the Krier brothers. Both architects, artists, polemicists, leaders of the return to traditional values and those of historic urbanism, the continuous thread of civilized urban life in the west, that began with Rome and continues to this day in historic cities like Philadelphia. Of the two Rob was the builder, responsible for great swathes of new traditional urban districts in Germany and other European countries. All of the buildings in the photographs are new. Even the sculptures are his.
Rob Krier died yesterday, the elder of the Krier brothers. Both architects, artists, polemicists, leaders of the return to traditional values and those of historic urbanism, the continuous thread of civilized urban life in the west, that began with Rome and continues to this day in historic cities like Philadelphia. Of the two Rob was the builder, responsible for great swathes of new traditional urban districts in Germany and other European countries. All of the buildings in the photographs are new. Even the sculptures are his.