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Arthur Erickson

"We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity."

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"We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity."

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"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."

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"Listen to the song of silence to understand the unsung music of the heart."

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"You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film."
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"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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"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."
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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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