Arthur Erickson Quotes
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The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.
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Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
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The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.
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We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
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Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.
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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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The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
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Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
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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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It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
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After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.
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Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
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Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.
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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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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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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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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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Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
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Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
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We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
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Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.
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No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
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Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
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In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.