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Building Quotes by Arthur Erickson
- Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
- Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
- No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
- Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
- Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
- You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
- In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.
- 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…
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