An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn’t awful.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLENothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death.
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What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.
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The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.
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Every generation tailors history to its taste.
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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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The building is a national tragedy – a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.
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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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Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
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Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.
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Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
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Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history.Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.
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If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.
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