#ture

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place? ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#does #place #spirit

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#cultures #incapacity #insistence #measuring #other

There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#doubt #fundamental #half #half century #last

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#become #begin #change #culture #cultures

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#celebrate #century #chance #committed #developer

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#architecture #exceptional #radiated #vitality

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#conscience #cultures #exploitation #human #yet

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse. ↗

— Ralph Erskine

#buildings #ease #human #human relations #improve

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#causes #coronation #effects #infinite #literature

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#conception #create #fact #future #just