Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Krier (at the Junípero Serra Museum, a San Diego landmark): he was accused of creating a ‘toy town’ at Poundbury, but the ...

Internationally known architect Léon Krier swept into San Diego this month to speak to a Balboa Park crowd that was yearning for easy answers to the tough job of reviving cities at the depths of a ...

Although many of his designs remain unbuilt — with a few exceptions, including King Charles’s Poundbury — he was a driving force in the New Urbanism movement.

Being "modern" is usually considered a good thing, because it implies newness built on learning the lessons of the past. Phrases like "the Modern Age" sound positive. Enter Leon Krier, described on ...

Pioneer of Poundbury—a traditional British town built in South West England in 1993—Leon Krier is once again rebelling against the architectural orthodoxy. This time, Krier is attacking the latest ...

Leon Krier is an architectural traditionalist, no doubt. At the beginning of his recent book, The Architecture of Community (Island Press), he essentially asks readers to make a choice: Which would ...

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. Renowned architect and urban theorist Leon Krier advocates for dense urban development but ...

Under chandeliers flickering with simulated candlelight, and nestled between the graceful symmetry of Ionic columns, architects and other associated fans of traditional buildings filled Carpenter’s ...

Tributes have been paid to Poundbury architect and ‘godfather of New Urbanism’ Léon Krier after his death at the age of 79 Born in Luxembourg shortly after the Second World War, Krier moved to London ...

Leon Krier has secured the go-ahead to replace a 1960s power station with 1,500 homes and swathes of other facilities to forge a ’smart town’ on the Hampshire coast Both New Forest District Council ...

Architecture is human. Despite their exquisite beauty, burrows, hives, nests and anthills are creations of instinct. Design by humans considers options, means and methods of creation, solving problems ...