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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.

Ada Louise Huxtable

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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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Delight Dimension Extra Important Sense Wonder
No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.
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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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The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale – and ultimately it is a gamble – demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.
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The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously as possible. … ornament is not only a source of sensuous pleasure
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That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
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Every generation tailors history to its taste.
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Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
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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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Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization.
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Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
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. Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn’t afford to keep it clean.
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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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Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line,
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