Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, respected exactly to the degree that it went too far.
Manhattan has consistently inspired in its beholders ecstasy about architecture.
—from Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas (highly recommended if you’re interested in a mix of architectural theory, history, and fantasy and don’t mind that same kind of dizziness you get when reading Derrida)
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