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The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line. – 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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Change
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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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Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression. – Arthur Erickson

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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas! – T. E. Lawrence

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architecture

The higher the building the lower the morals. – Noel Coward

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architecture

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future. – Tadao Ando

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The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. – Thomas Reid

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I got a lot of positive people around me. – Dave Chappelle

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We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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