Erik Heuler

architect, LEED AP, author, environmental advocate, volunteer, cyclist, animal lover, artist, thinker, voter

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Culture without a moral background is decadence. Design without a moral background is a crime against society. - Max Bill (1953)

[Erik Heuler @aforarchitect]

“Architects don’t always have to show off. There is poetry in disappearance.”

- Nicolas Vaucher

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“The...beauty of the everyday is something I try to remain alert to, if only as an antidote to the chronic cynicism...that seems to surround everything...despite how debased or corrupt...humanity is...it just keeps on being beautiful.”
- Nick Cave

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“If function is the driving force of form, then a successful work of architecture is closer to an organ than to a machine.”
- Sarah Robinson

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“The world…is filled with junior high adolescent pettiness, pubescent rivalries, the insecurities of 13-year-olds, and the false bravado of 14-year-olds.” - Tom Brokaw
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“When you see a concrete wall, it’s very rigid and has no flexibility. Whereas when you’re building with dry stone, it’s like weaving a rope. It can move and shift as the ground freezes and thaws.”
- Daniel Peterson

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“The mind is inherently embodied, though is mostly unconscious, and abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.”

- George Lakoff & Mark Johnson

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“...architecture must be confronted as being more than building design or buildings. It must be explored as having to do with relationships, including urbanism, of course, but moving beyond what one calls culture in general.”
- Jeffery Kipins &Thomas Lesser
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“A...difference exists between the wall...and the furnishing...because they are two different languages….The architect remains true to his calling as long as he gives maximum voice to these differences and lets them appear in full”
- Massimo Cacciari
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“A good soldier doesn’t hate what is in front of them, they love what is behind them.”
- G.K. Chesterton

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[Erik Heuler @aforarchitect]

“If it’s a good idea, it can be realized at multiple price points.”

- Marlon Blackwell

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[Erik Heuler @aforarchitect]

“What we need most in architecture today is the very thing that is most needed in life - integrity...if we succeed, we will have done a great service to our moral nature."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

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[Erik Heuler @aforarchitect]

“As the settings of our lives are losing their human meaning, it is the task of art and architecture to re-mythicize, re-sensualize and re-eroticize our relationship with the world.”

- Juhani Pallasmaa

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[Erik Heuler @aforarchitect]

“...when you build a thing you cannot merely build...in isolation, but you must also repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole....”
- Christopher Alexander
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“Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough-that we should try again. No. We should not.”
- Julia Cameron

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“Architecture, material in its very nature, literally touches us daily. It is a discipline that bridges technics and art, the individual and his or her environment.”

- Sarah Robinson

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[Erik Heuler @aforarchitect]

“Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
- Gustave Flaubert

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“What seems to characterize a creative person…it is a relative absence of repression or suppression as a mechanism for the control of impulse and imagery.”
- Loren Eisley

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“The aim of the Werkbund is to make things, not in the style of our times but that will last forever. That is bad.”

- Adolf Loos

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“The purpose of evolution, believe it or not, is beauty.”
- Joseph Brodsky

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“It is arrogant to pretend that our architecture is timeless...Perhaps we should seek a perennial architecture, one that is renewed by the seasons and the cycles of life and refreshed in the enactment of human ritual.”
- Sarah Robinson

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