architecture

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architect

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is both an art and a practical pursuit, and the profession has always been divided between those who emphasize the art, that is pure design, and those who give priority to the practical.

is always a response to limits—physical constraints, financial ones, or the demands of function.

Architecture is always a response to limits—physical constraints, financial ones, or the demands of function. xv

is surely our greatest physical symbol of the idea of community, our surest way to express in concrete form our belief in the notion of common ground.

Architecture is surely our greatest physical symbol of the idea of community, our surest way to express in concrete form our belief in the notion of common ground. The way a community builds tells you, sometimes, all you need to know about its values: just to look at Radburn, New Jersey, will tell you that it is a suburb built to control the automobile, in the same way that it does not take long to figure out that Positano and the rest of the Amalfi Coast in Italy were built to connect to the sea.

is what happens when people build with an awareness that they are doing something that reaches at least a little bit beyond the practical.

You could say that architecture is what happens when people build with an awareness that they are doing something that reaches at least a little bit beyond the practical.

is an arrogant city; it has always wanted to be all things to all people, and a surprising amount of the time it has succeeded.

New York is an arrogant city; it has always wanted to be all things to a ll people, and a surprising amount or the time it has succeeded . Ibid.

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