We regard those other cultures, such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1,000 or 2,000 years ago, as undeveloped. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
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". — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
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… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design.… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
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… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
