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Arthur Erickson

"Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I was in school studying civil engineering. A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I do understand why a desperate engineer still use a hammerto solve a hard problem. I think, that made him more humane."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process."

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Arthur Erickson
"Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over."

Management

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Arthur Erickson
"God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit."

God

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Arthur Erickson
"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."

Work

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Arthur Erickson
"Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad."

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Arthur Erickson
"Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?"

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

Freedom

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Arthur Erickson
"I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own."

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Arthur Erickson
"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."

Architecture

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Arthur Erickson
"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
"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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