A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.

Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.

When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz is the result of the energy stored up…

Modern European composers:have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition of m…

I went to the Rayburn Building the other day on trifling business. It was an appalling experience. I had forgotten how preposterous the thing is with its prete…

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.