Arthur Erickson Quotes
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Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
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We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
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The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
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Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
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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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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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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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Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
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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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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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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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Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.