Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLEReal serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness,
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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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Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
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The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. … At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.
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Really living without clutter takes an iron will … This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife’s occupations, picking up.
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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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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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The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.
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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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I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.
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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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Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life.
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There are few violations of this taste, and there is exemplary architectural consistency. Paris has defined the aesthetics of a sophisticated urban culture.
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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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In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture’s essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so little of it rises above the level imposed by compromise, and that this is the only work most of us see and know.
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