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ARCHAEOLOGISTS --- ARCHITECTS
ARCHITECTURE

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ARCHAEOLOGISTS

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can
have; the older she gets, the more interested he
is in her.
--Agatha Christie (1890—1976)
British crime fiction writer.
[probably apocryphal]


Nearly three thousand years old that palace was, it
appeared ... I wondered what sort of palaces they
had in those days ... But would you believe it, there
was nothing to see but mud! Dirty mud walls about
two feet high — and that's all there was to it ... I can
tell you it was a disappointment! The whole excavation
looked like nothing but mud to me — no marble or
gold or anything handsome — my aunt's house in
Cricklewood would have made a much more
imposing ruin! And those old Assyrians or whatever
they were, called themselves kings!
--Agatha Christie (1890—1976)
British crime fiction writer.
_Murder in Mesopotamia_ [1936], ch. 7.
Quoted in M.J. Cohan and John Major {ed.} _History in Quotations_ [2004].
Cohan and Major write:
In this detective story Nurse Leatheran was a newcomer to
archaeology and clearly did not find mud brick remains very
interesting, unlike her creator. Agatha Christie first visited the
site of Ur in 1928; on her second visit in 1930 she met a young
archaeologist, Max Mallowan, who became her second husband.
She became fascinated by his work and accompanied him on
every one of his expeditions, learning many of the skills of
archaeology in the process.

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Archaeology ... deals with a period limited to a
few thousand years and its subject is not the universe,
not even the human race, but modern man. We dig,
and say of these pots and pans, these beads and
weapons, that they date back to 3000 or 4000 BC,
and the onlooker is tempted to exclaim at their age,
and to admire them simply because they are old.
Their real interest lies in the fact that they are new.
--Sir (Charles) Leonard Woolley (1880-1960)
British archaelogist.
_Digging up the Past_ [1930], p.13

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antiquarian [an-tuh-KWAIR-ee-uhn], noun:
1. One who collects, studies, or deals in objects or relics from the past.
2. Of or pertaining to antiquarians or objects or relics from the past.
3. Dealing in or concerned with old or rare books.




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ARCHITECTS

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Architect, n. One who drafts a plan of your house,
and plans a draft of your money.
--Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914)
American newspaperman, wit, and satirist.
_The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906]
(Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.)

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the
architect can only advise his client to plant
vines.
--Frank Lloyd Wright (1867—1959)
American architect.
_New York Times Magazine_ [4 October 1953]




ARCHITECTURE
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The completed Chrysler Building immediately became the stuff
of 42nd Street legend. The pioneering photographer Margaret
Bourke-White occupied an office on the sixty-first floor and made
Chrysler's gargoyle ornaments world-famous when she crept out on
one to take a picture of the city from that vantage point, even as she
was having another taken of the event. A young James Agee, after
having had a few, was said to have dangled by his hands from the
fiftieth-floor office of Fortune magazine, another of the building's
tenants, "for the fun of it." And Chrysler himself kept private quarters
at the top, an office suite and an apartment that had a lavish dining
room ringed with a frieze of autoworkers in polished black glass
on a field of frosted blue. He had instructed his builders to make
sure his was the highest toilet in Manhattan, so that he could look
down upon the city from his porcelain throne and, as one observer
wryly put it, "shit on Henry Ford and the rest of the world."

In the end, Chrysler never actually moved his corporate headquarters
from Detroit to 42nd Street. Choosing instead to keep his auto
company in Michigan and, except for a private apartment, rented
the Chrysler Building's office space out to others. Nevertheless,
he saw the building as a self-righteous glorification of his own
achievements. No longer simply a building, it was, as architect
Philip Johnson once suggested, built to bring its owner close
enough to touch the face of God.

A year later the Empire State Building officially replaced it as
the tallest building in the world.

--Marc Eliot
_Down 42nd Street_
Ch. 1 "At The Crossroads" pp. 31-33

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Ev'rythin's up to date in Kansas City,
they've gone about as fur as they c'n go!
They went and built a skyscraper seven stories high,
about as high as a buildin' orta grow.
--Oscar Hammerstein II (1895—1960)
American songwriter.
"Kansas City" [1943 song], from the musical "Oklahoma"

In dim cathedrals, dark with vaulted gloom,
What holy awe invests the saintly tomb!
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809—1894)
American physician, poet, and essayist.
_A Rhymed Lesson_ [1846]

A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral
is a piece of architecture. Nearly everything
that encloses space on a scale sufficient for
a human being to move in is a building; the
term architecture applies only to buildings
designed with a view to aesthetic appeal.
--Nicholas Pevsner (1902—1983)
German-born English architectural historian.
_An Outline of European Architecture_ [1943]

A real building is one on which the
eye can light and stay lit.
--Ezra Pound (1885—1972)
American expatriate poet and critic.
In "The Dial" (magazine) [1923].

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the
architect can only advise his clients to plant
vines.
--Frank Lloyd Wright (1867—1959)
American architect.
In the "New York Times Magazine" [4 October 1953].

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Interesting web site:
http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc/buildings.html

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antechamber (noun)
A smaller room serving as an entryway into a larger room.
Synonyms: foyer, lobby, vestibule, hall, anteroom, entrance hall

cantilever (noun)
1. A projecting structure that is attached or supported at only one end
2. A bracket that supports a balcony or a cornice

edifice (noun)
Building: a building, especially a large or impressive one

pantheon [PAN-thee-on], noun:
1. A temple dedicated to all the gods; especially (capitalized),
the building so called at Rome.
2. The collective gods of a people; as, a goddess of the Greek pantheon.
3. A public building commemorating and dedicated to the famous
dead of a nation.
4. A group of highly esteemed persons.

plinth (noun)
1. A square block beneath a column, pedestal, or statue.
2. The part of the wall of a building immediately above the
ground, usually a course of stones or bricks.
3. The square block at the base on each side of a doorframe.

portico (noun)
1. Porch: a covered entrance to a large building
2. A covered walkway, often leading to the main entrance
of a building, that consists of a roof supported by pillars


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