The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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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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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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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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. 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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Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life.
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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.
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The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.
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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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
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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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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.
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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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Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man.
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