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 HUXTABLEThere 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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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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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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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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Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected – accessible and user-friendly.
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Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
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Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life.
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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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That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
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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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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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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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Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line,
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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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Every generation tailors history to its taste.
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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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