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It is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work.

Ada Louise Huxtable

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Delight Extra

All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
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Agency Conventional Later Self Sooner Stronghold
No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.

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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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May Monummentaist
. 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 age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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Aged Memorial Over Presential Presidential Read
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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Marble Substituted
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
The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale – and ultimately it is a gamble – demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.
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Payoff Ultimately
Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others – I am one of them – abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.
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Appaling Needlework Piece Some Truly
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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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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Century Secaucus Tossed
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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More Obsolete Railroad System Today
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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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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Circumvent Found Tax
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
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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Clutter Feeling. Oldest Involve Long Most
It is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work.
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Delight Extra
Every generation tailors history to its taste.
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Tailor
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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Count Way

It is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work.

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