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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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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With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption. – Arthur Erickson

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I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We neednt destroy other cultures with the force of our own. – Arthur Erickson

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The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture. – Tadao Ando

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Architecture is the art of how to waste space. – Philip Johnson

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In Los Angeles, by the time youre 35, youre older than most of the buildings. – Delia Ephron

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No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical. – Michael Ende

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