"The world of architecture – and of works conceived for architecture – tends towards beauty. True beauty tends towards ugliness and panic."
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"Whorf asked... Do the Hopi and European cultures... conceptualize reality in different ways? And his answer was that they do. Whereas European cultures are organized in terms of space and time, the Ho…"
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