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Arthur Erickson Quotes
After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
Architecture doesnt come from theory. You dont think your way through a building. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place? - Arthur Erickson Quotes
Gods designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We neednt destroy other cultures with the force of our own. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
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. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of natures ecosystems. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
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