Arthur Erickson Quotes
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Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.
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Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
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Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
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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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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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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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There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
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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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Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
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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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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.