A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in.
Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.
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 almost every museum of our time is a child of the Guggenheim.
I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a sense of what the building would be like to work in as well.
The bias among architecture critics isn't against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated by economic considerations - the way in which skyscrapers are real estate before they are architecture.
New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a city of virtually no rest. It is harsh, dirty, and dangerous, it is whimsical and fanciful, it is beautiful and soaring - it is not one or another of these things but all of them, all at once, and to fail to accept this paradox is to deny the reality of city existence.
The poor we shall always have with us, but why the hungry?
Your father is angry with me because he thinks I almost got myself killed,' said Sabriel, with a slight grin. 'I don't understand it myself, since I think he should be glad that I didn't.
Congress should know how to levy taxes, and if it doesn't know how to collect them, then a man is a fool to pay the taxes.
Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.