If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette. (Timothy Levitch)

If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.

Timothy Levitch

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