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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 a source…
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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…
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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 values existed…
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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 as if…
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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 as what…
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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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You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where…
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I find it striking that the quality of the urban habitat of homo sapieans is so weakly researched compared to the habitats…
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The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like…
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I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the…
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In an urban environment, a church building is a thing of the past.
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Each of us-adult or child-must earn nature's gift by knowing nature directly, however difficult it may be to glean that knowledge in…
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Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment,…
— Arthur Erickson
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I live in New York, and the only live animals you see are cockroaches, rats and pigeons, which I admire immensely. When…
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Construction waste is a major source of pollution in the city, the backward handling way of it for a long time has…
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