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Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

- Arthur Erickson

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Improvement Today World

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

- Arthur Erickson

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

Expression

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

- Arthur Erickson

Years

Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.

- Arthur Erickson

Engineering

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

- Arthur Erickson

Architecture

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

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