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• What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?
• Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme,…
• The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin,…
• In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
• Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts…
• You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster.…
• Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.
• I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

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