Quote by Arthur Erickson
After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the

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. – Arthur Erickson

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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. – Arthur Erickson

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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. – Arthur Erickson

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As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design. – Gianfranco Ferre

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