Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts. — 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
