"The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe." ― Arthur Erickson Topic(s): Architecture Tags: architecture, transparency More From Arthur Erickson "Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly." "Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom." "Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved." More In Architecture "The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture."― Tadao Ando "People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that’s both liberating and alarming."― Rem Koolhaas "At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I’m not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world."― Ben Nicholson