And infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. … Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLEThat turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
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The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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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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Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
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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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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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Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
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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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Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
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Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life.
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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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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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The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.
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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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In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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