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Charles III, the New Urbanism, Leon Krier and the ideal village of Poundbury

Temps de lecture : 4 minutesmots-clés : Charles III, New Urbanism, modernism, Krier, Leon, architecture, urban planning, village, rural, social Chers lecteurs, J’en avais parlé lors de la mort de la Reine : le prince Charles, aujourd’hui Roi Charles III (il viendra peut-être un jour à Charleroi ? ) a toujours été contre les modernistes. C’est même un instigateur important de la diffusion du…

Today’s post takes its impetus from a number of geometric games I’ve been playing with myself recently – the staircase moves from a circle to a square in plan, the tower moves from a square to a circle in elevation, the staircase moves from a rectangle to a circle as it moves from floor to floor.  Programmatically, it is a take on Krier’s belvederes, which crop up again and again in his oeuvre…

guest post – leon krier takes on corb

A few weeks ago, I posted a quick sketch of a Classicized version of Le Corbusier’s Five Points.  That post in turn had been influenced by the work of Leon Krier.  Today, Leon has agreed to share with you some yet unpublished drawings, his own revisiting of Le Corbusier’s seminal Villa Savoye. This is the mecca of Corbusian modernism, and Krier takes no small shots, recontextualizing the villa by…

the five points, revisited

Leon Krier always has an interesting point or two to make with regards to Le Corbusier, most likely due to Corb’s immense power over Krier’s earliest work and schooling.  In many ways, Krier’s career can be seen as one long extended dialogue with (and often against) the Modernist figurehead.  As part of that, Krier has recently talked about a resurgence of those five points against which Corb…

Above, a small pavilion built into a wall, which I imagine could extend quite some ways beyond where I’ve drawn it.  The roof, a tall shingled pyramid. Below, a roof that modulates between a square base and a round oculus at the crown, again figured as a tall, shingled pyramid. Come to think of it, what if we combined the two, a really long wall with a larger rotated square pavilion cut out of a…