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I moved to Los Angeles in 1993. I spent most of my time downtown, looking at buildings. I managed to get a job downtown, after which I spent all my time downtown looking at buildings. The Beaux-Arts buildings, in particular, enthralled me. Their symmetry, hierarchy, and proportion stressed order and control. They expressed an age (whether such an age truly existed, or not) that was elegant, civilized, and morally coherent. Counting columns and cataloging entablatures gave me succor, in the era of Rodney King, Northridge, gang violence, the Rampart scandal, industrial evisceration, capital flig
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I moved to Los Angeles in 1993. I spent most of my time downtown, looking at buildings. I managed to get a job downtown, after which I spent all my time downtown looking at buildings. The Beaux-Arts buildings, in particular, enthralled me. Their symmetry, hierarchy, and proportion stressed order and control. They expressed an age (whether such an age truly existed, or not) that was elegant, civilized, and morally coherent. Counting columns and cataloging entablatures gave me succor, in the era of Rodney King, Northridge, gang violence, the Rampart scandal, industrial evisceration, capital flig
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