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Arthur Erickson Quotes


An internationally celebrated Canadian architect and urban planner.
Arthur Charles Erickson, CC (June 14, 1924 – May 20, 2009) was an internationally celebrated Canadian architect and urban planner. He studied Asian languages at the University of British Columbia, and later earned a degree in architecture from McGill University. 

Here are some famous quotes by Arthur Erickson.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

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Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique poetic products of the heart.

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The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

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Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

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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.