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chronicling an eclectic labyrinth of architectural contemplation based in new york city
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She had given a little cry; she looked aghast. He was pleased that she should see death in his face at once. His mother, at the age of sixty, was going to be introduced to reality and he supposed that if the experience didn’t kill her, it would assist her in the process of growing up.

Flannery O’Connor, “The Enduring Chill,” 1958

#flannery o'connor#quote#lit#literature#the enduring chill#cry#aghast#pleased#mother#age#introduction#reality#experience#process#growing up#arrogance
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What the architect has to do is to express the significant image. He lives in the twentieth century, his buildings must communicate the significant side of the age in which he lives. Most architects are now almost completely conditioned to think that the clear exhibition of structure on the outside and inside of a building is a moral imperative. Every individual building will, in the course of its creation, produce its own laws and it is these before anything else that the architect must understand and accept. The architect must always try to present something more universal than a private view or mood. Technical developments ... cannot affect the central truth that the coherence of a work of architecture depends on its detail being a complete expression of and completely integrated in its basic architectural purpose. A building is a whole thing, it has to be thought right through; control of siting, control of materials, control of volumes, elevational organisation are all part of a single process.

Denys Lasdun, “Thoughts in Progress,” 1956-7

#denys lasdun#thought#progress#history#zeitgeist#quote#architecture#architect#design#image#communication#significance#age#conditioning#condition#exhibition#structure#inside#outside#exterior#interior#moral imperative#morality#building#clarity#universal#private#view#mood#technical
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A new design that is formally indistinguishable from its host context is the ultimate contextualist gesture, one in which the new does not just come in the shape of the old but rather arrives as a subtle and imperceptible supplement to it.

Jorge Otero-Pailos, “OMA’s Preservation Manifesto” from Preservation is Overtaking Us, 2014

#jorge otero-pailos#quote#historic preservation#preservation#design#architecture#context#gesture#host#new#old#age#restoration#reconstruction#shape#supplement#arrival
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When we were in school, just after 9/11, the common belief was that no one would build a skyscraper again, and we were all going to have to plan for our buildings to be demolished. In practice no one really thinks about their building being taken away – everyone pretends it will be there forever.

Jonathan Chesley, “The Architects Who Destroy to Create,” 2016

#jonathan chesley#architect#architecture#creative destruction#9/11#school#skyscraper#building#demolish#practice#forever#age#design
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The big question of the twenty-first century is how to foster collective action. In the age of the Internet, the potential to come to a shared engagement is there, so we ask, what would that mean in relation to display? Curating always follows art, so it is an exciting moment to be close to a new generation that oscillates between the analog and the digital.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Interview with Terry Smith, 2015

#hans ulrich obrist#interview#terry smith#question#foster#collective#action#age#internet#ask#display#curation#curate#art#quote#moment#generation#analog#digital#design
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By the very simple device of building our new buildings in the Tudor Gothic style we seem to have added a thousand years to the history of Princeton. … by merely putting those lines in our buildings which point every man’s imagination to the historical traditions of learning in the English-speaking race.

Woodrow Wilson, “On Collegiate Gothic,” 2013 (via atlantic)

#woodrow wilson#quote#device#tudor#gothic#style#time#history#imagination#race#racism#english#line#building#point#simple#age#princeton#princeton university#age value
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All these memories, following one after another, were condensed into a single substance, but had not so far coalesced that I could not discern between the three strata, between my oldest, my instinctive memories, those others, inspired more recently by a taste or ’perfume,’ and those which were actually the memories of another, from whom I had acquired them at second hand–no fissures, indeed, no geological faults, but at least those veins, those streaks of colour which in certain rocks, in certain marbles, point to differences of origin, age, and formation.

Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way, 1913-27

#marcel proust#quote#in search of lost time#remembrance of things past#memory#time#space#taste#sensation#perception#geology#fault#vein#color#origin#age#formation#marble#material#lit#literature#swann#swann's way#old#strata#substance#construction
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