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Famous Arthur Erickson Quotes
“Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.”
“The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.”
“Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.”
“Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.”
“Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.”
“Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.”
“The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.”
“The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.”
“We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.”
“Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.”
“Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.”
“You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.”
“No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.”