The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLEAll autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
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If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.
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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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Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of 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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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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We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed
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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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Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know.
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That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
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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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Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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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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Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.
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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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