Retail design and use is not only based on the space itself but also location. When a few stores go down often many others in an area go with them, a retail ghost town if you will.
— Brian Ulrich
And Libeskind himself? What to say, really, about an architect who has now recycled the same mournful, jagged forms that he deployed in the deeply moving Jewish Museum in Berlin and in his design for the World Trade Center site for use in a high-end shopping mall on the Las Vegas Strip?
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LA Times reviewing Las Vegas’ CityCenter
Before the advent of corporate communications and architectural uniformity, America’s built environment was a free-form landscape of individual expression.
— John Margolies
The work was about things rather than about people; surface rather than soul; not the human drama of the street but the taken for granted backdrop of the built enviornment against which the drama plays out.
— Gary Sauer-Thompson about Ed Ruscha
Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York.
— Edward Ruscha
For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Adams is so identified with black and white that most people would be surprised to learn that he started to shoot in color soon after Kodachrome was invented in the mid-1930s […]
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
— Ansel Adams
I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.
— William Eggleston
My late life was ruined […] by the German Bauhaus and its groups of friends who have had a disastrous effect on American architecture.
— Wallace Harrison
