Buildings, or How to Let Go of Forgettingby Dora Epstein Jones[T]radition proceeds by what might be called “selective amnesia,” each generation forgetting anything that had ceased to be of interest in order to find room for new matters of interest that had come up in its own time.
— Reyner Banham, “Stocktaking” (1960)There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. — Marie Antoinette
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