"Architecture doesn’t come from theory. You don’t think your way through a building." ― Arthur Erickson Topic(s): Architecture Tags: architecture, doesn, theory More From Arthur Erickson "The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land." "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." "We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward." More In Architecture "All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."― Gilbert K. Chesterton "If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I’d become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert’s death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be."― Kevin J. Anderson "There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons."― Edwin Lutyens