Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLEWaiting 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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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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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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. 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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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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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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All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
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Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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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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In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style.
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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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Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life.
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An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn’t awful.
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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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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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