Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLEIn New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city’s aniquated support systems, circulation
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Every generation tailors history to its taste.
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The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously as possible. … ornament is not only a source of sensuous pleasure
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The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility.
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Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line,
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The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.
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The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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If you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. … their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis.
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In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city’s aniquated support systems, circulation
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It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.
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Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
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Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
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New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
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Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected – accessible and user-friendly.
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Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life.
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Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
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