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“Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.” Léon Krier in The Architecture of Community Pics: Strasbourg, France

Indeed…

The commercial areas of Paseo Cayalá, the boulevards, streets and squares of these residential neighborhoods are paved with cobbles and flagstones to reinforce the primacy of the pedestrian over the automobile.

I’d love your feedback, but you’ll need 10min. I had the opportunity to share my thoughts with TEDxWilmington , because I think, as a #community, we can do much better. There is a massive #inequity in how we approach making great places.Let’s fix that. youtu.be/7UwxP-RoEus

@hblackson Léon Krier Proof that it works

Register for free for Traditional Architecture Gathering (TAG) conference next week with Léon Krier, Robert Adam and Andrés Duany eventbrite.com/e/tag-42-tradi…

Luxembourg proved to me that a large town can be a family of small towns and that work and life, education and commerce could be successfully integrated within each quarter. Before functional zoning and mechanical transport took command, large towns had to be ordered that way.

Life is a wiggle, and death a straight line. Imola (Italy) was a Roman foundation which got shaken into life by generations of pushing and pulling. (Plan of Imola's gridded pattern with it's Main Street wiggle by Leonardo da Vinci)

The town of Cayala was master planned in 2003 with the Guatemala-based firm of Estudio Urbano: estudiourbano.com.gt/urbanismo/pase… and instagram.com/estudiourbanog…

Mike Lydon (mikelydon.bsky.social) @hblackson Léon Krier And a new wide street from LK

Instead of the closed perimeter block, the open palazzine insula bock type is made of several mixed-use buildings that create a dense and geometrically flexible, human-scaled network of public spaces. zeroc.co.uk/about-zeroc/ne…