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Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for a

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. – Arthur Erickson

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Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them. – Arthur Erickson

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Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today. – Arthur Erickson

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Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture. – Bruce Jackson

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Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul. – Louis Kahn

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Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. – Alvar Aalto

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So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent. – Minoru Yamasaki

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