Lecture/Symposium with Leon Krier
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Architect Leon Krier discusses his New Book “The Architecture of Community”
The Florida Chapter of The I C A & CA with The Seaside Institute and Alys Beach Foundation are proud to announce a Symposium/ Lecture of the renowned Architect & Planner Leon Krier.
Mr. Krier will discuss his book and his proposed future direction of planning and architecture. Please join us in the New Urbanism Towns located in the Panhandle of Florida. This weekend promises to offer a rich architectural environment while engaging in topics that will and are, making design history.
The Book: The Architecture of Community by Leon Krier
Leon Krier is one of the best-known, most influential architects and urban theoreticians in the world. In his book “The Architecture of Community” he refines and updates his thinking on the making of sustainable, humane, and attractive villages, towns, and cities. This volume includes drawings, diagrams, and photographs of his works, which have not been widely seen until now.
The Architecture of Community provides a contemporary road map for designing or completing today’s fragmented communities.
Illustrated throughout with Krier’s original drawings, The Architecture of Community explains his theories on classical and vernacular urbanism and architecture, while providing practical design guidelines for creating livable towns.
“This book is Mr. Krier’s gift to the coming generations who, otherwise, have been left saddled by us with little more than extravagant debts in every way you could imagine. They are going to have to inhabit what remains of this planet, along with whatever remains of its resources, when we are gone, and Mr. Krier’s heroic, often lonely labors, have produced this indispensable beacon of principle and methodology to light their way home.”— James Howard Kunstler (from the book’s afterword)
About Leon Krier
Born in 1946 in Luxembourg, Leon Krier is one of the most influential architects teaching and writing today. He has taught architecture and urbanism at the Architectural Association and the Royal College of Arts in London, and in the United States at Princeton University, Yale University, the University of Miami, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Virginia. He has worked extensively in Europe and North America and is currently consulting on projects in Guatemala, Romania, England, Belgium, Italy, France, and the United States. In 2003, he received the inaugural Richard Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture.
Schedule of Events
Friday, April 2, 2010
4:30- 6pm
Book Signing
Location: Fonville Press (Alys Beach)
6:00 - 8pm
Cocktail Reception
Location: Caliza Pool (Alys Beach)
$30 per ticket
Saturday, April 3, 2010
5:00 pm
Salon Lecture & Discussion
Location: Seaside Chapel (Seaside)
$10 ICA / AIA Members
$15 Non-Members
$25 @ Door
7:00 pm
Dinner / Reception
Location: Robert & Daryl Davis’ House
115 Seaside Avenue (Seaside)
$75 per person
RSVP by Monday, March 29, 2010
Marieanne Khoury-Vogt
ta@alysbeach.com
850-213-5510
Braulio Casas
leo@casasarchitecture.com
850-231-0922
Accommodations
Special event rates for accommodations have been arranged with the Cottage Rental Agency of Seaside. CRA has generously arranged for a free night's stay with two reserved nights or 20 percent off the entire stay. These are truly incredible rates. To make your reservations please contact Arden Sanders and mention the Leon Krier event.
Arden Sanders
ardensanders@cottagerentalagency.com
877-297-7698