"Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today."
-Arthur Erickson
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"Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.“
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"The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up."
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"There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons."
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"Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture."
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"First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture."
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