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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In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style.
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That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
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Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected – accessible and user-friendly.
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Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.
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Waiting is a special kind of activity – if activity is the right word for it – because we are held in enforced suspension between people and places, removed from the normal rhythms of our days and lives.
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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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Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
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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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New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
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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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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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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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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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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Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line,
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