LÉON KRIER, CITIES WITHIN THE CITY

CITIES WITHIN THE CITY LEON KRIER (LU)
This conference took place on April 23rd, 2019 and was organized by LUCA - in collaboration with the Master in Architecture of the University of Luxembourg - as part of the "This Will Feed That" cycle.
In his lecture, Léon Krier explains his vision of good architecture and urbanism using Luxembourg City as an example. What makes a city real? The goal is to have a significant architecture to attract people, which is important to live in a good atmosphere. In fact, architecture unified modern society. About urbanism, his proposal focuses on the relevance of polycentric cities with several connections. Then, it's important that each city has all the functions needed by the population.
He also defines the traditional city as a horizontally spread shape with vertical emergences. Vertical buildings are very important for people, and their design needs to combine traditional and classical architecture. It’s time to watch and enjoy this lecture!
Léon Krier is a Luxembourgish architect, architectural theorist and urban planner, specialised in modern traditional urbanism and architecture. He combines an international architecture & planning practice with writing and teaching.

[@reasonablyserious]

This man is a legend

[@aaronmcclintock816]

Living legend..his insights blow my mind such simplicity yet they feel so true...

[@DEPHY4NT]

Love this guy, answers so many of my feelings around citires being torn down for corporate greed. A measure of `state corruption in its Architecture. . Fc_k Modernity.

[@user-qp6lj6gu7s]

It's not just corporate greed, in northern Europe and I bet many other places (whole former soviet union is a good well known example) the state/politicians are the ones that started it and keeps it going. It was only after that when the citizens start to think there aren't any other options, that greedy corporations can use it to get away with boxy slightly cheaper housing. Even today I think a lot of it is ideological rather than economical, because the companies that build the houses hire an architect/architect firm to tell them what is fashionable and sought after by the customers, and aren't knowledgeable enough to know when they get fed ideological lies.

[@francescos7361]

Giant , I love him so much

[@orsobianco2861]

Come sempre ringrazio il Prof. Krier per la sua illuminante lezione

[@simonwalker2800]

He got me at saying: you dont have an image of an iconic building while thinking about EU.

[@drew-andresvogt652]

Brilliant concepts, thank you Leon for articulating such. He makes plain many observations I have had of cities.

[@ilotrunisfoschkanuris1883]

germania by speer is not real guilt, it is more a kind of superconciousness for being german, thankxs for the great environment with theere movies

[@ChristosFlorosLU]

Oh Leon :)

[@francescos7361]

I think Krier is immense in his reflections, he defines new and rich temporal spatial relations. I place it at the levels of Deleuze in part is post-structuralist although I can not make dialogue with spatial temporal and volumetric relations consequently with the archetypes themselves and the architectural types , known to the neorealist current(Rossi, Siza and others..). It's surely art like Bohm but he does not add new theoretical definitions such as De Portzamparc in the open block.

[@GetTherapyBirmingham]

We have a new interview with Duany up on our channel also some articles about Krier from a Jungian perspective on our blog.

[@simonestreeter1518]

You poor thing. Who scrambled your brain, I wonder?

[@francescos7361]

I think the influence of the great architect Bohm is present

[@andreewert1925]

Bilbao is Great..Frank Gehry did some epic work, using aeronautical skin Materials ..but it is a Disruptor..a Disruptor to the existing Zeitgeist..Mr. Goldfinger, all he wants is Gold..and data, and lots of Cameras..lol...we must choose the Reality we decide to inhabit, settle, work in..Queen Anne..had the classical inclination..maybe, we ll get to see Queen Anne, version 2.0 some day...lol. Haussmann who redesigned, and modernized Paris in the XIX TH century gave all these issues Deep thought and I think Lyon got a similar Update from the Romans..circular grand avenues like Washington DC, Paris, and Detroit.

[@kovacsl.3124]

Can someone tell me the names of the French cities he is talking about at: 1:05:00?

[@P-A-X-]

Fessenheim

[@justinleemiller]

Le Plessi-Robinson and Val d'Europe

[@user-qp6lj6gu7s]

11:20 "Who knows what expresses our time? Nobody knows! It's complete BS to think that you are an agent of the spirit of our time" This perfectly pinpoints the type of arrogance that in all fields end up destroying the thing they claim to promote. They say that they know what everyone else needs, despite only thinking about themselves.

[@andreewert1925]

I think Haussman..5 stories with a mezzanine setback got it right..With Elevator technology nowadays, it is a compromise between too much Sprawl and too much Density..Taillibert is a modernist sculptor ..let him stick to that coz his structures are very expensive to maintain, uses technology monopolized by certain big builders which helps nobody, and 10x the cost of anything. In Montreal, after paying 1 Billion for the Big O, they now want to spend another 800 Million $ to make it useable and safe..new fixed roof, reinforcements, and replacement of structural elements.

[@ilotrunisfoschkanuris1883]

very funny thee, there will be french engagements for germania superarianara Cavalleria Rusticana

[@andreewert1925]

Good Architecture is like a Good Business that has a social license to operate..it involves, not just taking every square inch of a lot, but engaging, Give Back, have pleasant spaces, and terraces, accessible to All. Letting somebody build 35 stories can be done, given air rights,..another way of indemnifying the Neighborhood for the Shade cast on a Neighborhood.....Mixity of low and high structures with mixed uses that are intergenerational..not Ghettos of Old here, kids there, youth somewhere else. Let's Unite in more than Words..Good Architecture must reflect that. Frank Lloyd Wright had some of the same concerns with his idea of a true American Architecture, Prarie Style or Funertary Buildings in the USA.But more narcissistic, hedonistic with things like Falling Water.

[@lucius.aennius]

Nemo propheta acceptus est in patria sua.

[@sarahsarah2534]

Leon, I despise skyscrapers and modernism as much as you. Let's demolish all that rubbish and bring back beauty.

[@andreewert1925]

A Backlash against traditional architecture and Speer s Reincarnation of it..possibly..its a theory..In 1984, he founded the company Büro Albert Speer & Partner in Frankfurt am Main.He was responsible for the design of Expo 2000 in Hanover, design of the Shanghai International Automobile City, and the central axis in Beijing created while serving as lead designer for the 2008 Olympics.[7][8] Speer was part of the architectural firm involved in Munich's bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics,[9] and in the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup. He died on 15 September 2017 at the age of 83 in Frankfurt am Main. His Dad, also an architect, was a Hitler Minister and probably a Criminal by association with this regime., probably should have been hanged...but his Architecture was Good.

[@ilotrunisfoschkanuris1883]

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[@ilotrunisfoschkanuris1883]

very funny "kirchberg" a village in the superfront of germania

[@johannusverhoeff4911]

They tried to build a good capital in Australia, Canberra, it has only 7 good buildings, the rest is ticky tacky boxes. It is a depressing place. Needs pulling down if only we could do something about it. Australia is ruled by descendants of jailers, unimaginative clots.

[@daf1209]

Beautiful explanation, sorry to see the poor execution but that has Nothing to do with him