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You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

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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
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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 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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No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.
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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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We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.
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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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Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
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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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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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Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.
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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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The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.
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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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Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
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Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
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Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
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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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Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
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Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
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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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