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An 8 page research paper that discusses the New Urbanism architectural philosophy of brother architects Leon and Rob Krier. Their architectural ideas reflect back to previous era, drawing on architectural history to produce high-density urban area which combine private homes and businesses. The writer also discusses their complaints against Modernism and Leon Krier's project of Poundbury in Dorset, Cornwall. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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both in aesthetics and in fulfilling the needs of human beings in regards to where they live and work. Both brothers argue that modern architecture -- using an old cliche
-- "threw the baby out with the bathwater" when it abandoned design that had any sense of place and history. Their vision for cities focuses of making urban
space not only more livable, more aesthetically beautiful, but also is mindful of ecological impact. Generally referred to as "New Urbanism," it proposes a totally different route for
urban planning than the one that has dominated urban planning during the twentieth century. An examination of these innovative brothers work and writing reveals their respective philosophies regarding the path
that architecture should be taking. Luxembourg-born brothers Leon and Rob Krier look on architecture as art. As one art critic commented concerning an exhibition of Leon Kriers work,
"Krier is more than an accomplished architectural draftsman: he is a brilliantly evocative artist whose classicizing fantasies are a delight to the eye and a spur to the imagination" (Kimball,
2002, p. 22). Gazing at prints of Leon Kriers buildings, Kimball argues that these structures provide: ...tranquil portraits...of a vanished world, but perhaps it would be more accurate to say
that they are reconstructions of a world that never quite existed...but whose beauty...seductiveness, lies precisely in that mixture of impossibility and exquisite delineation (Kimball, 2002, p. 22).
Kuntler points out that Leon Krier is the "intellectual godfather of the New Urbanism movement in the US, a "campaign to rescue the landscape, townscape, and civic life" of the
nation from the "failed experiment of a drive-in utopia (Kuntler, 1998, p. 80). While Rob Krier appears to have written more books on architecture than his brother, he has also
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