Leon Krier and New Urbanism

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Leon Krier and New Urbanism

• UrbDP 450
• Christine Bae
• Oct 11, 2007

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Andres Duany,AIA NU Project Kentland, MD
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, AIA NU project
Seaside, FL
Miami based firm Duany Plater-Zyberk Company
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Leon Krier Influential Figure in NU

• "Léon Krier is one of the most important
  influences on the principles espoused by the
  charter for the New Urbanism. For those who
  don't know, Krier is a European architect who has
  spent a lifetime writing, drawing, lecturing, and
  teaching. He has designed a number of noteworthy
  plans for European cities, including for
  Poundbury, whose developer is the Prince of
  Wales -- who might be called a New Urbanist. I
  would highly recommend Krier's books, including
  'Architecture, Choice or Fate'."

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
http//zakuski.math.utsa.edu/krier/
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Leon Krier Influential Figure in NU

• DUANY "One day I went to a lecture by Leon
  Krier, the man who designed the English model
  town of Poundbury for the Prince of Wales. Krier
  gave a powerful talk about traditional urbanism,
  and after a couple of weeks of real agony and
  crisis I realized I couldn't go on designing
  these fashionable tall buildings, which were
  fascinating visually, but didn't produce any
  healthy urban effect. They wouldn't affect
  society in a positive way. The prospect of
  instead creating traditional communities where
  our plans could actually make someone's daily
  life better really excited me. Krier introduced
  me to the idea of looking at people first, and to
  the power of physical design to change the social
  life of a community. And so, in a year or so my
  wife and I left the firm and went off to do
  something very different."

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Leon Krier

• Born in Luxembourg in 1946.
• Studied Architecture at the University of
  Stuttgart.
• Professor of Architecture and Town Planning,
  Architectural Association and Royal College of
  Arts, London, 1974-1976.
• Professor of Architecture, Princeton University,
  1977.
• Jefferson Professor, University of Virginia,
  1982.
• Consultant to His Royal Highness, Charles, the
  Prince of Wales, since 1988.
• Davenport Professor, Yale University, 1990-1991.
• Eero Saarinen Professor, Yale University, 2002.

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Leon Krier

• I am an architect, because I dont build.
• The Intellectual Godfather of New Urbanism
• Anti-modernist
• Anti-skyscraper (cf. Le Corbusier)
• Anti-zoning
• Anti-American Cities
• Anti-Industrial Cities

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Leon Krier NU

• New Urbanism is not utopian and does not impose
  social and architectural collectivism. New
  Urbanism is not utopian and does not impose
  social master plans. Instead, it allows the
  infinite variety of human talent and ambition to
  build harmonious and pleasing environments. It
  channels competitive forces to flourish as good
  neighbors while pursuing their own self-interest.
  The very great challenge of the future, however,
  will be the urbanization of suburbia, the
  redevelopment of sprawl.

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Leon Krier NU

• The theoretical models are ready, but their
  application is slow. What is now already certain
  is that even the most soulless dumps on earth
  canbe turned around to become places of beauty
  and human thriving.

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Kriers buildings

• http//zakuski.math.utsa.edu/krier/BUILDINGS/krier
  buildings.html

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The Reconstruction of the European City

• http//zakuski.math.utsa.edu/krier/
• http//zakuski.math.utsa.edu/krier/reconstruction.
  html

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Charter of New Urbanism

• http//www.cnu.org/charter
• Guiding principles for policy, planning
  development practice
• Metropolis, city, town
• Neighborhood, district, corridor
• Block, street, building

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War on Cul-de-Sacs!!
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Calthorpe, Next American Metropolis
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Isolated Schools (from Dr. R. Jackson)
Credit Constance E. Beaumant, NTHP
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Smart Schools (From Dr. R. Jackson)
Credit Manitoivic Public School District
Credit Constance E. Beaumant, NTHP
Credit Hummel Architects, Boise, ID
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CNU selective NU websites

• Congress for the New Urbanism
  http//www.cnu.org
• Kentlands, MD http//kentlandsusa.com/kentlands/c
  ommunity.php
• Seaside, FL http//www.seasidefl.com/default.asp
  
• Orenco Station, OR http//www.orencostation.net/
• Northwest Landing, WA http//www.nwlanding.com/
• Issaquah Highlands, WA http//www.issaquahhighla
  nds.com/