Leon Krier

Leon Krier's lesson in architecture

Mathieu Helie — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:36:02 +0000

Creating the emergent dimension, or learning from Wikipedia

Mathieu Helie — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:29:40 +0000

In Architecture: Choice or Fate, his manifesto for New Urbanism, classicist Leon Krier produced many inspirational images of urban complexity, going as far as a fractal comparison of modern and traditional buildings. The cover of the book, a fictional resort town for Tenerife, presents a fascinating case study of complex symmetry; no building is the same as another, but all share the same geometric properties. That would not be unusual had it not been an architectural manifesto.

A measure of urban connection

Mathieu Helie — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:58:23 +0000

What does it mean for a city to be connected? And is there quality resulting from this property? Let's define the basic node of a city as a doorway. (Not necessarily a building. A single building can have many doorways to separate spaces.) A connection is the distance from this doorway to the next node, that is to say the next doorway. A well connected city is a city where the distance from doorway to doorway is minimized, since everything will be easily accessible from the public space.