Arthur Erickson

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.

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These are some quotes by Canadian author Arthur Erickson Architect, who was born on June 14, 1924.

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

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Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

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

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