Arthur Erickson Quotes
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Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
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Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
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Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.
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Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
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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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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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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 heart, not the head, must be the guide.
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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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Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.
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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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Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
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There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.