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The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japa

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe. – 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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Attitude
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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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Change
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Architecture aims at Eternity. – Christopher Wren

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architecture

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture. – Ian Hamilton Finlay

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architecture

If youre into architecture and youre from the West, everything is hors doeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately youre led there. You cant escape it. – Ben Nicholson

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Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. – John Portman

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architecture

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Earth laughs in flowers. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Hamatreya”

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From my earliest days I had a passion for science. – Joseph Rotblat

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