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 HUXTABLEIf the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.
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Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness,
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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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All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
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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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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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Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.
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Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.
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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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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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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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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life.
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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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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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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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