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There 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.

Ada Louise Huxtable

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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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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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We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed
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Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of 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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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