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Drawing for Architecture (Paperback)
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Drawing for Architecture (Paperback)
Series: Drawing for Architecture
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Drawings, doodles, and ideograms argue with ferocity and wit for
traditional urbanism and architecture. Architect Leon Krier's
doodles, drawings, and ideograms make arguments in images, without
the circumlocutions of prose. Drawn with wit and grace, these
clever sketches do not try to please or flatter the architectural
establishment. Rather, they make an impassioned argument against
what Krier sees as the unquestioned doctrines and unacknowledged
absurdities of contemporary architecture. Thus he shows us a
building bearing a suspicious resemblance to Norman Foster's famous
London "gherkin" as an example of "priapus hubris" (threatened by
detumescence and "priapus nemesis"); he charts "Random Uniformity"
("fake simplicity") and "Uniform Randomness" ("fake complexity");
he draws bloated "bulimic" and disproportionately scrawny
"anorexic" columns flanking a graceful "classical" one; and he
compares "private virtue" (modernist architects' homes and offices)
to "public vice" (modernist architects' "creations"). Krier wants
these witty images to be tools for re-founding traditional urbanism
and architecture. He argues for mixed-use cities, of "architectural
speech" rather than "architectural stutter," and pointedly plots
the man-vehicle-landneed ratio of "sub-urban man" versus that of a
city dweller. In an age of energy crisis, he writes (and his
drawings show), we "build in the wrong places, in the wrong
patterns, materials, densities, and heights, and for the wrong
number of dwellers"; a return to traditional architectures and
building and settlement techniques can be the means of ecological
reconstruction. Each of Krier's provocative and entertaining images
is worth more than a thousand words of theoretical abstraction.
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