In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLEBeauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization.
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Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
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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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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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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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. 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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Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness,
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Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization.
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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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Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history.Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.
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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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Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
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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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Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There’s no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
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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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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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