The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.

the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.

The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.

Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis.