Hypostyle House project (Axonometric)

Leon Krier

1977

An ink-on-paper axonometric by Leon Krier that imagines a ‘Hypostyle House’ of repetitive columns and ordered classical volumes, proposing a human-scaled alternative to modernist housing.

Crisp, measured ink lines render blocks, colonnades, and voids in a toy‑like three‑dimensional view so the plan reads as an orderly miniature city of rooms and promenades seen from an oblique angle.

The drawing crystallizes Krier’s revival of traditional, classical urban and architectural principles—using precise axonometry to argue for proportion, social space, and human scale and to influence debates that fed into New Urbanism and postmodern critiques of modernism.

Art Terms

Architectural drawing Architecture Drawing Ink Classicism Postmodernism Built environment

Exhibitions

Visionary Architecture

1960

Architectural Models from the Collection

1974

Modern Architecture: International Exhibition

1932

Architecture in Government Housing

1936