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Quotes by Arthur Erickson
- The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
- The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
- The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
- The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
- There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
- There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.
- This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.
- 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.
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