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Arkitekturopprøret Norge (aonorge) stormer framover, med over 50.000 følgere på Instagram, de aller fleste siden nyttår, så det ser ut til at vi er i ferd med å få et arkitektonisk paradigmeskifte. Derfor vil jeg i fortsettelsen re-poste noen av mine gamle artikler, i denne lange kampen jeg og mine med-alexandrinere har stått i de siste 15 år. Leon Krier er en gigant, dessuten innrømmer han stolt, i likhet med undertegnede, at han ikke makter å leve i anti-biofile og degraderte omgivelser. Han er svært sensitiv for omgivelsene, og ser dette som en god, menneskelig egenskap. Nærende, biofil bakgård i Venezia, midt i blinken for Leon Krier og undertegnede. Her kan sjelen vokse og gro😘 Introduction in English This lecture by Leon Krier is one of the most informative I’ve ever watched on the field of architecture, each minute is a flash of insight. Great architecture is just so simple, maybe this is why it is so difficult to achieve for modern man? We are born with the language of ar...

Hi Øyvind, Many thanks for passing along these resources! Krier is a giant, it has been some time since I've engaged with his thinking, but I've very much enjoyed watching this provocative presentation. And it links up quite well with J.A. Arnfinsen's conversation with Nikos Salingaros at levevei.no . In particular, I found it interesting to come into some of these lines of thinking after having wrapped up the past month of working on this exhibition in San Diego:  http://uag.ucsd.edu/ . Good to pull into these topics now that the dust has settled a bit. All the best, Joseph Redwood-Martinez

Like William Morris, Léon Krier is dedicated to the cause of beauty: that gives his work an edge and an individuality which many people would rather be without. If his polemic seems at times simplistic, it is I believe his concern for the loss of beauty that has reached a level close to despair, and if his words at times sound shrill it is because his ideas have been met so often by indifference or complacency. -- Robert Maxwell, from the introduction to Léon Krier's talk. This essay is even more important today than when it was written in 1982: -  How Industrial Society Destroys Culture