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Leon Krier invades Providence

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By David Brussat    Email

* * * Leon Krier, the famous architectural theorist, lectured Providence at Brown University last night, leaving no one in any doubt about his prickly architectural world view. Expressing his witty self in his ineffable Luxembourgian accent, showing his......

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 Tags  architecture   Brown University   Congress of the New Urbanism   Leon Krier   planning   Providence RI  

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Coming up: Two quotations from Tom Wolfe

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Tom Wolfe in 1978, Philip Johnson, Le Corbusier * * * Since I am on vacation there will be no column this Thursday or next Thursday. To atone for this atrocity, I offer up two quotes from Tom Wolfe's......

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 Tags  From Our House to Bauhaus   Le Corbusier   Philip Johnson   Tom Wolfe  

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Lecture by Leon Krier Thursday at Brown

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By David Brussat    Email

Leon Krier is the famous classicist and urbanist from Luxembourg who is architect and planner for Poundbury, the new town in Dorsetshire, England, sponsored by Prince Charles. Poundbury is widely hated by modernists, hence it is a beautiful, functional......

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 Tags  Brown University   Congress for the New Urbanism   Cornish Associates   Donald Powers Architects   Leon Krier   Poundbury   Prince Charles   Providence RI  

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