American - Architect | June 21, 1939 -
It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.
Charles Jencks
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In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
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A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.
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If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.
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What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.
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Europe has been in my bones.
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Can't you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?
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Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.
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The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.
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The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.
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I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.
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The cell is a city of production centres, each part working away like mad, and it's co-ordinated. Six trillion cells in a body - you can't help but be moved.
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