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Architecture is a special effects machine

In this engrossing EG talk, architect Liz Diller shares her firm DS+R's more unusual work, including the Blur Building, whose walls are made of fog, and the revamped Alice Tully Hall, which is wrapped in glowing wooden skin.

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Lewis Mumford: "The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon." #Machinery

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Ernst Fischer: "As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man." #Machinery

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Antoine De Saint-Exupery: "The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them." #Machinery

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Adam Smith: "The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex." #Machinery

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: "By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature." #Machinery

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Hannah Arendt: "Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize." #Machinery

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Karl Marx: "Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor." #Machinery

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Bertrand Russell: "Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery." #Machinery

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Wyndham Lewis: "If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble." #Machinery

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Lewis Mumford: "The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture." #Machinery

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