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Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration. ”
Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution. ”
Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition. ”
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role. ”
I think that Vegas is one of the wildest places I've ever been to. You can look to your left and there's a drag queen getting married by Elvis, to the right there is some old bird sticking quarters into a slot machine for hours. ”
Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of the way of America's entrepreneurs, and our unemployment rate is now lower than it was in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s. ”
Medical engineering is one of the areas in which the traditional 'silo' structures of university disciplines have not encouraged collaboration. ”
Industrialisation, mass transit, and the Internet are technological revolutions that have reshaped lives, nations, and the planet. ”
When I first did 'Empire,' it was a severe break from everything I'd written up to that point, which is all very continuity-driven, super-heroic, and ethics and morals-infused. 'Empire' was a chance to break away from that. ”
The publicity machine for films and television is so much bigger than for theatre. ”