Actually that is totally Hugh Hardy's opinion. That part is a direct
quotation of the foreword, hence the citation and Quotation marks around the
phase.

Jennifer
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Date: Friday, March 05, 1999 8:51 AM
Subject: Hey, Jennifer, want an "F" on your paper?


>The procrastinating student proposes (partly quoting Hugh Hardy):
>
>> preservation "enriches our understanding of ourselves".
>
>Here's an unpopular concept:  "Preservation is not holy, not enriching, not
>ecological, not correct - it is just another architectural style."
>
>I forget who said that - I think it was a very old man - he must be dead by
>now.
>(But didn't Jefferson say that the hardest thing in the world to design was
an
>alteration to an existing building?)
>
>Signed,  Christopher Gray