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We must now heed the imperative voice of emotion.
The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered (1896)
All things in nature have a shape, that is to say, a form, an outward semblance, that tells us what they are, that distinguishes them from ourselves and from each other.
The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered (1896)
Unceasingly the essence of things is taking shape in the matter of things, and this unspeakable process we call birth and growth.
The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered (1896)
These two happenings seem jointed and interdependent, blended into one like a bubble and its iridescence, and they seem borne along upon a slowly moving air. This air is wonderful past all understanding.
The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered (1896)
Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight, or the open apple-blossom, the toiling work-horse, the blithe swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun, form ever follows function, and this is the law.
The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered (1896)
The man who designs in this spirit and with the sense of responsibility to the generation he lives in must be no coward, no denier, no bookworm, no dilettante. He must live of his life and for his life in the fullest, most consummate sense.
The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered (1896)
What is the chief characteristic of the tall office building? It is lofty. It must be tall. The force and power of altitude must be in it, the glory and pride of exaltation must be in it. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exaltation that from bottom to top it is a unit without a single dissenting line.
The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered (1896)