Building over Motorway Project, London, England, Perspectives
Leon Krier
Luxembourger, born 1946
1969
An ink drawing of a proposed building that bridges a motorway in London, showing Krier’s intention to transform transport infrastructure into a compact, sculptural urban object.
On a largely blank sheet three precise pen sketches command attention—the distant elevation of rounded, silo-like towers on the horizon, a boxed sectional view showing those forms set into a retaining wall, and a long horizontal diagram at the bottom with a clustered knot of structural members linking the two sides, all accompanied by the artist’s handwriting.
The drawing captures Krier’s postmodern challenge to functionalist planning by proposing human-scaled, architectonic interventions that reintegrate highways into the civic fabric and revive classical ideas of urban form.
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
19 x 15 5/8" (48.3 x 39.7 cm) (frame)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the architect in honor of Philip Johnson
Accession
378.1996
Palette
Art Terms
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