Arthur Erickson Quotes
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The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.
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Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
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The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
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Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.
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We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.
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The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
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The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
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Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.
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There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.
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Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
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We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
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What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
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No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.
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Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.