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The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: Because Disney Dream Empty Everyone Great Land Make-Believe Merchant Need Seemed Spiritually Success

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The heart, not the head, must be the guide.

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: Guide Head Heart Must

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The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: About America Arts Attribute Brave Brave New World Everything Innovative Insecurity New New World Spirit Strongest Transforming World

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The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: Architecture Europe Japan Lightness New Transparency

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The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: Aesthetic Development Form Impact Intuitive Itself Left Machine Obsession Other Performance Room Space Spiritual Than

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The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: Architects Artists Creations Events Great Historical Names Recorded Renaissance

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

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: Before Demands Disease Existed His Implants Infectious Like Own Them Tourist Values Whatever

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The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: Architecture Beginning Guided Quiet Voice Way

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

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: Attitude Civilization Direction Early Flow Mediterranean Our Present Present Time Single Thread Time

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There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.

~Arthur Erickson

Topics: Accept Awareness Becoming Immediate Implications Increasing Larger Less Prone Questioning Solution Things Without

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Architect

Born: June 14th, 1924

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