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"From all these directions, strong pressures converge toward the same end: the inescapable ephemeralization of the man-thing relationship." Toffler, Future Shock, 1970 p 67

 

"Whatever one's views on this matter, one must admit that in principle, the limits of any system may be transcended, whether these limits are artistic, architectural or social." Jencks, Architecture 2000, p19

 

"If architects could hold fast to that precept for a decade or so, and not get sidetracked by the purely technical and purely professional preoccupations, the history of the immediate future could make exciting reading." Banham, History of the Immediate Future, 1761, p 257

 

"In such a case you would have a certainty that you preserved everything in a very democratic and dispassionate way - highways, Chinese monuments, bad things, good things, ugly things, mediocre things - and therefore really maintained an authentic condition." Koolhaas, Preservation is Overtaking Us, 2004, p2

 

"Many recommend doing fewer things in order to do them better a core tenet of the Slow philosophy. Yet most fail to attack the root of our malaise: the obsession with saving time." Honore, In Praise of Slowness, 2004.

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