Architecture Quote by Arthur Erickson

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

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

— Arthur Erickson

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

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

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

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

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

— Arthur Erickson

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

— Arthur Erickson

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

— Arthur Erickson

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

— Arthur Erickson

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

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

— Arthur Erickson