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“I viewed the station as a place, a terrain where I could put a new architecture in place. The station was, of course, an historic monument, but it does not deserve all the respect given it when it is said it is perfect, original and coherent expression of a past that we must revere. Orsay is basically a box.”

Doe Said Past Courses Given Perfect Expression Deserve Originals Boxes Architecture Stations Historic Monument Terrain

Author:Gae Aulenti

“What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination that looks forward to the making of a future, not backward to the insignia of the past. Their enterprise is underwritten by a Constitution that allows for the widest horizons of sight and the broadest range of expression, supports the liberties of the people as opposed to the ambitions of the state, and stands as premise for a narrative rather than plan for an invasion or a monument. The narrative was always plural; not one story, many stories.”

“The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.”

Ifs Past Expression Torment

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.”

Years Past Expression Scientist Available Fifty Conventions Over The Past

Book:Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age

Source: Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age