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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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We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same. – 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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Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom. – Arthur Erickson

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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. Its a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. – Ai Weiwei

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A house is a machine for living in. – Le Corbusier

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We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city. – Alvar Aalto

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