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
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  3. Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. - William S. Burroughs

  4. Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time. - Vincent Scully

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More Quotes By Arthur Erickson
  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.

  5. Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

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