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.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLEEvery generation tailors history to its taste.
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Every generation tailors history to its taste.
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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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Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
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Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
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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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Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
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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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In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style.
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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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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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There are two kinds of people in the world – those who have a horror of a vacuum and those with a horror of the things that fill it. Translated into domestic interiors, this means people who live with, and without, clutter.
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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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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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No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.
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The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.
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