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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. "

Arthur Erickson

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" Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture. "

" The basic architecture of Dodd-Frank makes sense. At the same time, as a number of regulators and legislators have observed, the act was a complex effort that produced thousands of pages of rules. "

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" Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over. "

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" I call architecture frozen music. "

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" If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture. "

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" Architecture is invention. "

" When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts. "

" Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. "

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" I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them. "

" It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness. "

" If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. "

" I graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did the requirements for the major, I realized I was more interested in how people live in buildings than in making buildings. I was more interested in the interactions that happened inside the structures. "

" I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away. "

" But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean. "

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" It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. "

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" Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know. "

" Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes. "

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" We have to base architecture on the environment. "

" All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. "

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" What people want, above all, is order. "

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" I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching. "

" I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses. "

" London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. "

" Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society. "

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" Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly. "

Arthur Erickson

" I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time. "

" Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul. "