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• What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To…
• The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the…
• The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who…
• The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the…
• Always beware an unsigned architectural design.
• Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid…
• Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.
• Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.
• High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.
• There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect.
• Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.
• A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of…

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