Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLEOnly a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.
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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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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 New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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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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New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
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Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
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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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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
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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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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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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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The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.
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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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