" The inculcation of love for the city in which one lives, being only an enlarging of the love for home, is an end that should meet with response from the newest recruit to American principles. It is a form of patriotism that can appeal to all people who come to this country...Adequate, dignified, beautiful governmental buildings will produce an effect on the governed which mere holders of office as individuals cannot do"

"NY City Municipal Art Society Committee Report 1905".

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"We must learn how to mark with our own desires this visual order already manipulated by stereotypical forms and handed down ceremoniously for our passive consumption."

via The City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments, Christine Boyer

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TEA Tenerife, by Herzog & de Meuron