Arthur Erickson Quotes
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Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
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The essentially unchangeable established order of things, slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely...
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In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.
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The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
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We regard those other cultures such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1000 or 2000 years ago - as "undeveloped".
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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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Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
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Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
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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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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.
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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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The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
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No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.
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Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.
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Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
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We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it.
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No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
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Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
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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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Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
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Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
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Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
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Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
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Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place in all this? Unfortunately we are no longer the interpreters of our culture's myths but the followers of that dubious client, the developer, who has little patience with the art of architecture, the fine detail and obscure promise, which can upset his financial activity.
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Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
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We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
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Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.
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We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
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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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