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Léon Krier (born 7 April 1946) is a Luxembourgish architect, architectural theorist and urban planner, a prominent critic of architectural Modernism and advocate of New Traditional Architecture and New Urbanism. Krier combines an international architecture & planning practice with writing and teaching. He is well-known for his master plan for Poundbury, in Dorset, England. He is the younger brother of architect Rob Krier.

A selection of manifesto texts by Krier

Many of these are available online

  • The idea of reconstruction
  • Critique of zoning
  • Town and country
  • Critique of the megastructural city
  • Critique of industrialization
  • Urban components
  • The city within the city – Les Quartiers
  • The size of a city
  • Critique of Modernisms
  • Organic versus mechanical composition
  • Names and nicknames
  • Building and architecture
  • The reconstruction of the European city
  • What is an urban quartier? Form and legislation

Selected publications

  • James Stirling: buildings & projects 1950-1974, Stuttgart, Gerd Hatje, 1975
  • Rational Architecture Rationelle, Bruxelles, AAM Editions, 1978.
  • Léon Krier. Houses, Palaces, Cities. Edited by Demetri Porphyrios, Architectural Design, 54 7/8, 1984.
  • Léon Krier Drawings 1967-1980, Bruxelles, AAM Editions, 1981.
  • Albert Speer, Architecture 1932-1942, Bruxelles, AAM Editions, 1985. New York, Monacelli Press, 2013.
  • Léon Krier: Architecture & Urban Design 1967-1992, London, Academy Editions, 1992.
  • Architecture: Choice or Fate, London, Andreas Papadakis Publishers, 1998.
  • Get Your House Right, Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid, New York, Sterling Publishing, 2007
  • The Architectural Tuning of Settlements, London, The Prince’s Foundation, 2008
  • Drawings for Architecture, Cambridge (Massachusetts), MIT Press, 2009.
  • The Architecture of Community, Washington DC, Island Press, 2009.





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