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)

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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