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The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
Art
America
Brave New World
Innovative
New World
Transforming
Brave World New
Attribute
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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.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
Architecture
Space
Moving
Spiritual
Structure
Much
Been
Contains
Dimension
Moves
Physical
Spiritual Dimension
Statement
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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.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
Art
Expression
Inspiration
Senses
Instinctively
Medium
Responsive
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The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
Demand
Disease
Implants
Tourism
Tourists
Destinations
Existed
Infectious
Tourist
Transports
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No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
Artist
Aspect
Ecosystems
Fundamentals
Isolated
Our Lives
Phenomenon
Repercussions
Fundamental
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In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
Architect
Artist
Country
Technique
Centuries
Coordinated
Craft
Direction
Techniques
Tightly
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We regard those other cultures, such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1,000 or 2,000 years ago, as undeveloped.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
Behave
Regard
Years Ago
Believe Where People
Cultures
Believe People Live
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We regard those other cultures such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1000 or 2000 years ago - as "undeveloped".
Arthur Erickson / Architect
Artist
Believe
Years
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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.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
Architecture
Artist
Choices
Consultants
Industry
Research
Choice
Itself
Forward
Litigation
Neither
Nor
Provide
Regulations
Takes
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The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
Space
Aesthetic
Impact
Intuitive
Obsession
Spiritual
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We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
Appreciate
Medieval
Towns
Buildings
Comprehend
We Cannot
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There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
Awareness
Becoming
Idaho
Implications
Questioning
Prone
Immediate
Increasing
Solution
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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.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
Design
Space
Convincing
Convincing Evidence
Descent
Evidence
Focus
Materialism
Disappeared
Reference
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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.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
Artist
Culture
Materialism
World
Begin
Change Great World
Cultures
Disastrous
Model
Inveterate
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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.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
Doubt
Midst
Profound
Revolution
Revolutions
Fundamental
Half Century
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Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
Bankers
Concerned
Culture
Implications
May
Natural Environment
Urban
Afford
Aspects
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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.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
Architecture
Celebrate
Century
Committed
Enterprise
Entrepreneur
Lasts
Today
Developer
Substitute
Last Century
Whom
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What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
Men
Civilization
Distinguished
Preoccupation
Superiority
Thread
Western
Western Civilization
Outward
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We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
Believe
Fashion
Inspiration
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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.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
Space
Glasses
Meaningful
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Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place in all this? Unfortunately we are no longer the interpreters of our culture's myths but the followers of that dubious client, the developer, who has little patience with the art of architecture, the fine detail and obscure promise, which can upset his financial activity.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
Architecture
Doe
Spirit
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