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Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.
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There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.
Arthur Erickson
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Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
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Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.
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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 it were a reasonable process.
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Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.
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We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
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The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
Arthur Erickson
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I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
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No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.
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What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
Arthur Erickson -
Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
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Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
Arthur Erickson -
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
Arthur Erickson
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Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
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The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.
Arthur Erickson