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Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

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Arthur Erickson
Age: 84 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 14
Died: 2009
Died: May 20
Architect
University Teacher
Vancouver
British Columbia
Arthur Charles Erickson
Arthur C. Erickson
Materialism
North
Management
Takes
Artist
America
Never
Ominous

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Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
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Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.
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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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Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
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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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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 are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it.
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With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
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