"The way of architecture is the quiet voice……" — Arthur Erickson

"The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning."

— Arthur Erickson

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66 Quotes by Arthur Erickson

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Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.
We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet…
Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and…
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever…
No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.
The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear…
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much…
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the…
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. — Theodore Bikel
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat… — Alvar Aalto
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and… — Alvar Aalto
A picture is worth a thousand words. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split… — Alvar Aalto
Architecture is inhabited sculpture. — Constantin Brancusi
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I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in… — Dan Brown
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases.… — Dan Brown

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