Alexander Jackson Davis quotes
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“One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.”
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“Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.”
Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style”, Pantheon
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“I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.”
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“It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.”
Source : "Aalto in Finland" by R.W. Apple, Jr., www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1978.
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“I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.”
Source : "Alex Prager Predicts Disaster". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 29, 2012.
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“The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.”
Source : 'Je suis compositeur' (1951) p. 16
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