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Arthur Erickson Inspirational Quotes (37)

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You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
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Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
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We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
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Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place in all this? Unfortunately we are no longer the interpreters of our culture's myths but the followers of that dubious client, the developer, who has little patience with the art of architecture, the fine detail and obscure promise, which can upset his financial activity.
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We regard those other cultures such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1000 or 2000 years ago - as undeveloped.
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Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
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Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
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Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.
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Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.
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No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.
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Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
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Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
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The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.
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God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
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This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.
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The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
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No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.
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Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.
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There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization...
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We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.
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We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.
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No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
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We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
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Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
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