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The style of Parisian architecture has been proved and refined by at least three centuries of academic dictates and highly developed taste.

Ada Louise Huxtable

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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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An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn’t awful.
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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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No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.
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Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life.
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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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Circumvent Death Feeling Found Tax
Every generation tailors history to its taste.
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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 New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.
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Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
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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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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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New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
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The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.
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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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