Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

- Leon Krier

A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.

- Leon Krier

Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.

- Leon Krier

Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.

- Leon Krier

The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.

- Leon Krier

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

- Leon Krier

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must…

- Leon Krier

You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects.…

- Leon Krier

In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

- Leon Krier