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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.

Ada Louise Huxtable

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All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
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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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The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.
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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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Every generation tailors history to its taste.
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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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Common Real Rigor Mortis Room Waiting Wanting
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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The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture’s essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so little of it rises above the level imposed by compromise, and that this is the only work most of us see and know.
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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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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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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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Academic Architecture Century Developed Dictate
Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
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