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We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of li

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward. – 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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Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom. – Arthur Erickson

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Freedom
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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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Attitude
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No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical. – Michael Ende

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They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. – Henry David Thoreau

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Art is very tricky because its what you do for yourself. Its much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture. – Maya Lin

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Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are. – Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe

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