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Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us. – Arthur Erickson

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What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority. – 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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Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. – Arthur Erickson

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. – Lord Byron

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Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. – Ernest Hemingway

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There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. – Kenzo Tange

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