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But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.

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Charles Jencks

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.

Beautiful, Chin, Medicine, Mixes, Perception, Philosophy
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Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3. 32 p. m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

Block, Grace, Igoe, Infamous, July, Pruitt

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

Art, Believe, Sensational, Should Have

Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts to whole……. …skew or distorted spaces, created by sharp angles which exaggerate perspective…. …always keep a mental coordinate system no matter how free- form and baroque they become. The reference plane is always an implied frontality, and the route through the building or the curvilinear elements then relate to this conceptual cage

Curvilinear, Irrational, Matter, Perspective, Space

If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.

Look, Looks, Self, Tree, Using, Variation

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

1979, Kitsch, Ornament, Ornaments, Postmodernism, Understanding
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