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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.
Arthur Erickson
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Arthur Erickson
Age: 84 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 14
Died: 2009
Died: May 20
Architect
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Arthur Charles Erickson
Arthur C. Erickson
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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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Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
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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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I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
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We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
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The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.
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Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
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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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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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