I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLEThe 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 skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.
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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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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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An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn’t awful.
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There are few violations of this taste, and there is exemplary architectural consistency. Paris has defined the aesthetics of a sophisticated urban culture.
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If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.
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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.
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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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Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line,
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New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
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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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Every generation tailors history to its 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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Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man.
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