Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others – I am one of them – abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLEReal estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.
More Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes
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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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That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
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It is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work.
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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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Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness,
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Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
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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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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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Waiting is a special kind of activity – if activity is the right word for it – because we are held in enforced suspension between people and places, removed from the normal rhythms of our days and lives.
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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.
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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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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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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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New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
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Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know.
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