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the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. … At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.

Ada Louise Huxtable

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New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
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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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In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style.
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Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
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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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Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
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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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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 New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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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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That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
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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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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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Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
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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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. 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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