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9 Apr 2020
All traditional architecture clearly distinguishes between public symbolic institutional buildings and utilitarian private buildings. #goodurbanism
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9 Aug 2023
Instead of the closed perimeter block, the open palazzine insula bock type is made of several mixed-use buildings that create a dense and geometrically flexible, human-scaled network of public spaces. zeroc.co.uk/about-zeroc/news…
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30 Jul 2023
That is why Léon Krier (@LeonKrier)built with Prince Charles a whole new beautiful village in England, Poundbury.
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And a new wide street from LK
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24 Feb 2023
[Poundbury] is in Europe the first coherent and very successful countermodel to suburbia and motopia. The latter are futureless forms of settlement. The functional zoning of cities is driving the daily mobilization of the entire population in the performance of everyday tasks.
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24 Feb 2023
This enforced geographic segregation is responsible for the catastrophically global wastage of time, land and energy of modern societies. It is profoundly unsustainable.
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24 Feb 2023
The only way forward is to design integrated settlement policies on national and continental scales that will promote the ‘walkable city’, both with regard to walkable distances and to walkable building heights.
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31 Jan 2023
Le Corbusier corrected. His colossal ambitions as a reformer of urbanism, his Radiant City Project was and remains a functional, formal, social, political, energetic, ecological insanity. His 'monumentalization' of suburban sprawl is unsustainable in ecological and human terms.
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A conversation on the latest book in progress "Le Corbusier after Le Corbusier," translating the poetics of Le Corbusier into functional urban and vernacular schemes: youtube.com/watch?v=vinByHNE…
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30 Jan 2023
The town of Cayala was master planned in 2003 with the Guatemala-based firm of Estudio Urbano: estudiourbano.com.gt/urbanis… and instagram.com/estudiourbanog…
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30 Jan 2023
Life is a wiggle, and death a straight line. Imola (Italy) was a Roman foundation which got shaken into life by generations of pushing and pulling. (Plan of Imola's gridded pattern with it's Main Street wiggle by Leonardo da Vinci)
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24 Aug 2022
Luxembourg proved to me that a large town can be a family of small towns and that work and life, education and commerce could be successfully integrated within each quarter. Before functional zoning and mechanical transport took command, large towns had to be ordered that way.
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17 Feb 2022
Register for free for Traditional Architecture Gathering (TAG) conference next week with @LeonKrier, @classical_man and @andres_duany eventbrite.com/e/tag-42-trad…
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23 Jan 2022
I’d love your feedback, but you’ll need 10min. I had the opportunity to share my thoughts with @TEDxWilmington , because I think, as a #community, we can do much better. There is a massive #inequity in how we approach making great places.Let’s fix that. youtu.be/7UwxP-RoEus
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13 Jan 2022
The commercial areas of Paseo Cayalá, the boulevards, streets and squares of these residential neighborhoods are paved with cobbles and flagstones to reinforce the primacy of the pedestrian over the automobile.
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8 Jan 2022
“Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.” @LeonKrier in The Architecture of Community
Pics: Strasbourg, France
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20 Dec 2021
I am not a polemicist by nature or character. I woke up to it when I saw my home-town, a jewel of architecture, urbanism and landscaping, wrecked by false ideas of modernity. The beautiful townhouse I grew up in is replaced by an elephantine and vulgar office complex.
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20 Dec 2021
Sustainability is hence the much abused and ill-used term. The so called “ecological” suburb, the “green” skyscraper, green-transport, - food, -fuel, green-everything, as all zero carbon projects, are lies.
They are no more possible than the perpetuum mobile.
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20 Dec 2021
The only truly ecological city is the mixed-use, -scale, -income traditional city, using local resources of materials, techniques and crafts for its construction, use and maintenance.
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