White Monuments with Red Flag Curtains, project, Perspective
Leon Krier
Luxembourger, born 1946
1974
A pen-on-paper architectural sketch in which Leon Krier imagines a cubical public monument animated by oversized, flag-like curtains, testing how simple form and theatrical drapery create presence and ritual.
What strikes you is the economy of line and the vast white field: a small, isolated pavilion on a hill, its flowing curtains rendered with delicate strokes and tiny human figures for scale, giving a sense of movement and ceremony.
Created as part of Krier’s reaction to modernist abstraction, the drawing stages his case for human-scaled, symbolic civic architecture by showing how classical form and theatrical elements can restore ritual and urban meaning.
Medium
Pen on paper
Dimensions
5 7/16 x 8 1/4" (13.8 x 21 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Architecture and Design Interest Fund
Accession
253.1986
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Art Terms
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