Arthur Erickson Quotes
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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 whole.
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The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.
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Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
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The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
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Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
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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.
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We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
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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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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.
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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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The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
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There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
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Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
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Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.