Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLEEvery age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
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California … is the place that sets the trends and establishes the values for the rest of the country; like a slow ooze, California culture spreads eastward across the land.
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Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness,
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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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. Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn’t afford to keep it clean.
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In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style.
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There are two kinds of people in the world – those who have a horror of a vacuum and those with a horror of the things that fill it. Translated into domestic interiors, this means people who live with, and without, clutter.
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Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.
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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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No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.
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Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There’s no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
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It supplies a necessary kind of magic to people and places that lack it. More than just a dread of empty spaces has led to the urge to decorate; it is the fear of empty selves.
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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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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