Re-imagining Krier

Spring 2012

This simple project takes Leon Krier’s facade from the Strada Novissima exhibition at the 1980 Venice Biennale and re-interprets it in light of his work since that date, offering a Casa Serenissima, where the sobriety and radicalism of his youth are replaced with optimism and even whimsy. More than a stylistic shift, this new facade is really the re-presentation of an often misunderstood polemic, where modernity is garbed in history’s ‘serenity’.

Elective coursework under Robert A. M. Stern while at Yale University.

The Casa Serenissima

Krier’s original 1980 facade – The Casa Veneziana

Facade character studies

Facade study