Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
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Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.Arthur Erickson
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
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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.
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Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
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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.
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Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.
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