Arthur Erickson Quotes
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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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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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Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
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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 heart, not the head, must be the guide.
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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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Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
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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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Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.
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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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The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
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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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I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.