Sublime

just the right combination of distinctiveness and ordinariness.

To many, Hill always seemed the embodiment of cold and analytical practicality; but even as a boy, he revealed how realism and romanticism can coexist in the same mind, how in fact the interaction between the two can form the personality.

Bernard Rudofsky’s Streets for People;

Marcia Davenport was in Prague finishing East Side, West Side, which she dedicated to Perkins.

At the same time, he argued, the desire to attract and satisfy students as though they are mere customers leads to academic coddling, in the form of easy grades and expensive facilities and entertainments, such as intercollegiate athletic teams.

For his role in saving the city’s water supply during the holiday, he was awarded a commemorative watch, though one gets the sense that this kind of grueling physical effort was William Mulholland’s idea of fun.

make architecture the focus of his creative energy.

that brief moment of possessing both downtown credibility and the promise of more mainstream success.