Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.
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The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
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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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The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age.Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.
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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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Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected – accessible and user-friendly.
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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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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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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.
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