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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.

Ada Louise Huxtable

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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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It supplies a necessary kind of magic to people and places that lack it. More than just a dread of empty spaces has led to the urge to decorate; it is the fear of empty selves.
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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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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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No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.
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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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Activity Enforced Hed People Specialist Waiting
There are few violations of this taste, and there is exemplary architectural consistency. Paris has defined the aesthetics of a sophisticated urban culture.
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Aesthetic Centuries Developed Proved Violation
Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line,
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Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
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Architecture Pursuit Style Unapologetic Unfettered
In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city’s aniquated support systems, circulation
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The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
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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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That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
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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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The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.
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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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