Arthur Erickson

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

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

Quotes by Arthur Erickson

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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