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An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn’t awful.

Ada Louise Huxtable

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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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Dubious Excellent Saying Would
Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

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Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
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Architectural Reel Steel Stone Vocabulary
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
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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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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Deemed Distinction False Longer Real Unbearable
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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Elusive Expressive
New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.

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New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
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Grandeur Hyperbole Irreverence Name
Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.

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Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.
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Estate Proverbial Real
. 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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City Demolished Ultimately
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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Box Candy National Sarcophagus
Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death.
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Chunk Consume Decoration Waiting
In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style.
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Consistency Everything Paris Structure
That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
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Jersey Wasteland
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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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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Establishes Quest
And infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. … Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.

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And infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. … Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.
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Aesthetic City Infrastructure Override Sunlight
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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Clearly Clerk Palace
Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.

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Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
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Clutter Collecting Form Highest Organised

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