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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.

Ada Louise Huxtable

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Every generation tailors history to its taste.
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Tailor
Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There’s no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
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Creativity Draw Know
Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life.

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Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life.
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Friendly Real Way
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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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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Circumvent Found Tax
If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.
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British Shopkeeper Shopper Shopping United States
Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.
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Becoming California Fake Real Take
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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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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Century Secaucus Tossed
Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness,

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Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness,
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Real Rigor Mortis Waiting Wanting
The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility.
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Architectural Object Perennial Responsibility Versus
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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Building Delight Extra National
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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Aged Memorial Over Presential Presidential Read
The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.

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The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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Blush Competence Country Computer Laid
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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More Obsolete Railroad System Today
All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
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Agency Conventional Later Self Sooner Stronghold
Really living without clutter takes an iron will … This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife’s occupations, picking up.
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Clutter Feeling. Oldest Involve Long Most
If you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. … their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis.
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