By Nikos A.Salingaros
Reconstruction
of Luxembourg, European Parliament (1978)
by Léon Krier
by Léon Krier
"In the beginning Men looked out for Settlements in some secure Country; and having found a convenient Spot suitable to their Occasions, they there made themselves a Habitation so contrived, that private and publick Matters might not be confounded in the same Place."
Alberti
"De
Res Aedificatori"
Naxos
Garden Seafront, Sicily
(Photo
by Lucien Steil)
Cathedral
Square in Milano
(Photo
by Lucien Steil)
Pisa,
Borgo Stretto
(Photo
from Joel Crawford's Archives)
Place
des Vosges, Paris
(Photo
by Mary Ann Sullivan)
Public
Space in Bologna
(Photo
by Lucien Steil)
"If
the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one
generation and planned for the living only. It must transcend the life-span
of mortal men; without this transcendance into a potential earthly immortality
no politics, no common world and no public realm is possible."
Hannah Arendt
"The
Human Condition"
La
Plaza del Mercado de San Juan, Puerto-Rico
Panting
by Luis Germán Cajiga
Public
Loggia in Public Square (1977)
(by
Rita Wolff)
Projects
by Léon Krier
Blundell Corner
District, Kingston Upon Hill (1977)
by
Léon Krier
Teerhof
and Altstadt, Bremen, Germany (1980)
"Weser
Promenade"
by
Léon Krier
Piazza
Sedile, Filadelfia (1983)
Painting
by Rita Wolff
Reconstruction
of the Piazza Sedile, Filadelfia, Calabria (1983)
by
Léon Krier
Panoramic
View from the Tegeler Lake
by
Léon Krier
Master
Plan for the New Hafenviertel, Berlin-Tegel (1980-1983)
by
Léon Krier (Assistant: Francisco Sanin)
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