"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 "Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture." "Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today." "After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared." More In Architecture "We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."― Marcel Proust "All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God."― Thomas Browne "If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness."― Tadao Ando