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— Ada Louise Huxtable"The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried."
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The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.
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