Quote by Arthur Erickson
Architecture doesnt come from theory. You dont think your way thro

Architecture doesnt come from theory. You dont think your way through a building. – Arthur Erickson

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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. – Arthur Erickson

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design
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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

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Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom. – Arthur Erickson

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I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them. – Maya Lin

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Dont fight forces, use them. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

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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 it contains that moves us. – Arthur Erickson

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Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower. – Richard Rogers

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