Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLEThere are two kinds of people in the world – those who have a horror of a vacuum and those with a horror of the things that fill it. Translated into domestic interiors, this means people who live with, and without, clutter.
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It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.
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New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
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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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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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All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
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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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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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Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
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The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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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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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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Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance
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Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
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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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Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.
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