The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
Arthur Erickson
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Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist. -
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. -
Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts. -
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings. -
I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
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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.
- 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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