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Leon Krier: Crusader Against Post-Modernism |
| Section: THE ARTS / ARCHITECTURE |
| Author: Kenneth Powell |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 2,562 Words, 14,997 Characters |
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Leon Krier is a self-confessed extremist. He is waging a crusade against the modern city - against the automobile; the sprawling suburb; the business district, busy by day, deserted at night; and against the architects and planners who, he believes, have prostituted their callings by aiding and abetting its creation.
A cult figure on the world's architectural scene for almost decade, Krier has recently assumed a far more substantial presence in Britain through his role as an advisor to the Prince of Wales - now, beyond dispute, Britain's most influential architectural critic.
Prince Charles' interest in architecture is not simply aesthetic in origin, though he deplores the unrelieved concrete, steel, and glass elevations of the 1960s and 1970s and years for a revival of Classi...
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...alfields planners?
So much that Krier has produced, and been condemned for, has now become accepted wisdom that is easy to forget the relative youth of the man. Perhaps it is his role to be forever a prophet on the fringe of the architectural scene, reminding architects and patrons of the in adequacy of their ambitions in the context of history and arguing the case for an ideal future.
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