Paul Goldberger quotes
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“Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.”
-- Paul GoldbergerSource : Paul Goldberger (2014). “Why Architecture Matters”, p.10, Yale University Press
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“On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the city's most squalid environments-noisy, smelly, crowded and overrun with a ceaseless supply of graffiti.”
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“By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such views-not of a narrow river, as there is across town, but of one of the noblest rivers in the United States.”
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“The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.”
-- Paul GoldbergerSource : "Homes of the Stars". www.newyorker.com. September 13, 2004.
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“New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.”
-- Paul GoldbergerSource : "The Next American System". The Blueprint America Interview, www.pbs.org. May 20, 2009.
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“Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.”
-- Paul GoldbergerSource : "The Next American System". The Blueprint America Interview, www.pbs.org. May 20, 2009.
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“Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.”
-- Paul GoldbergerSource : "The Next American System". BLUEPRINT AMERICA interview, www.pbs.org. May 20, 2009.
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“For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.”
-- Paul GoldbergerSource : "The Vignelli Subway Map Goes Digital" by Paul Goldberger, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2011.
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“I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model?”
-- Paul GoldbergerSource : "Apple's New Headquarters" by Paul Goldberger, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2011.
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“We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.”
-- Paul GoldbergerSource : "The Next American System". Blueprint America Interview, www.pbs.org. May 20, 2009.
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“Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.”
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“Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense almost every museum of our time is a child of the Guggenheim.”
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“New York remains what it has always been : a city of ebb and flow, a city of constant shifts of population and economics, a city of virtually no rest. It is harsh, dirty, and dangerous, it is whimsical and fanciful, it is beautiful and soaring - it is not one or another of these things but all of them, all at once, and to fail to accept this paradox is to deny the reality of city existence.”
-- Paul Goldberger
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