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Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible…
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Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.
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A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.
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The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.
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Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.
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Human intelligence is a limited resource. It cannot solve problems caused by ignoring fundamentals of existence.
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In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.
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All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or…
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I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.
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If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a…
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Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there…
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You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture,…
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President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.
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The day before my inauguration President Eisenhower told me, You'll find that no easy problems ever come to the President of the…
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President Eisenhower saw it coming, and it is here. Patriotism no longer exists among many of these corporations. Some companies have more…
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President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he…
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President Roosevelt and President Truman and President Eisenhower had the same experience, they all made the effort to get along with the…
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The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemic, the center of which is not President Eisenhower or Washington, D.C.…
— Leon Krier
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In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end…
— Noah Feldman
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab…
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The first person who contacted us was the assistant to President Eisenhower... in the White House.
— Betty Hill
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