"Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.“


-Arthur Erickson

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Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

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