"Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture." ― Arthur Erickson Topic(s): Architecture Tags: enemy, rationalism More From Arthur Erickson "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." "Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today." "The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land." More In Architecture "If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think."― Miranda Otto "We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."― Arthur Erickson "I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them."― Maya Lin