Open AccessInterview with Léon Krier
Author(s) -
Léon Krier,
M. Schwarz
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of traditional building, architecture and urbanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2660-583X
pISSN - 2660-5821
DOI - 10.51303/jtbau.vi1.359
Subject(s) - austerity , clarion , newspaper , nazism , politics , history , art history , art , political science , economic history , visual arts , law , artificial intelligence , computer science
The conservative weekly Berlin Newspaper Junge Freiheit was intrigued by Krier’s pun in a 1993 Die Welt article. Following the then official cancellation of the Berlin Castle reconstruction project, Krier had quipped that Germany had to continue doing architectural penance for the Nazi sins. The immense popular success of reconstructions currently being completed in Berlin, Potsdam, Dresden, Frankfurt, despite regular political and professional sabotage, mark indeed a historic break with modernist post war architectural austerity. They are clarion calls for a radical change in established architectural policies and education.