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“ 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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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.

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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