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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

Arthur Erickson Architecture Art Science

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.

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Arthur Erickson Architecture Art Materialism

Life is rich always changing always challenging and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood concrete glass and steel of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

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Arthur Erickson Architects Architecture

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.

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Arthur Erickson Time Direction Present

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.

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Arthur Erickson Order Outlook Part

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.

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Arthur Erickson Architecture Spiritual

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

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Arthur Erickson Choice Research Forward

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

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Arthur Erickson Great Heart Unique

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

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Arthur Erickson Art Energy Building

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

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Arthur Erickson Building Think You

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

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Arthur Erickson Art Enemy Necessary

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

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Arthur Erickson Art Design Details

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

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Arthur Erickson Art Vitality Exceptional

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

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Arthur Erickson Place Spirit Does

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

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Arthur Erickson Transparency New Japan

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

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Arthur Erickson Beginning Voice Quiet

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

~ Arthur Erickson

Arthur Erickson Work Today Celebrate

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

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Arthur Erickson Desert Dream Wonder

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

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Arthur Erickson America Goal Consumption

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

~ Arthur Erickson

Arthur Erickson Everything Sense Gone
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