"Materialism has never been so ominous as now……" — Arthur Erickson
"Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over."
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66 Quotes by Arthur Erickson
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Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
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Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.
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We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet…
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Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and…
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It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
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The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever…
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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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The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear…
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Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
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Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much…
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Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the…
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