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
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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. The new aesthetic ideal was one of “surface” which became the way of life for all the world. When the new aesthetic style of space came into play people felt that they were losing their inner world and that they were not important if they were not seen in public.

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