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Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.

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New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population…
Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.
Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense…
Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant…
We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.
I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings…
For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.
Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.
Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.
New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around…
The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.
By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such…

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