Arthur Erickson

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

— Arthur Erickson

We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source…

— Arthur Erickson

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

— Arthur Erickson

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental…

— Arthur Erickson

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

— Arthur Erickson

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order…

— Arthur Erickson

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment,…

— Arthur Erickson

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

— Arthur Erickson

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

— Arthur Erickson

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as…

— Arthur Erickson

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

— Arthur Erickson

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

— Arthur Erickson

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

— Arthur Erickson

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

— Arthur Erickson

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of…

— Arthur Erickson

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are…

— Arthur Erickson

There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than…

— Arthur Erickson

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western…

— Arthur Erickson

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

— Arthur Erickson

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

— Arthur Erickson

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the…

— Arthur Erickson

Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.

— Arthur Erickson

There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning…

— Arthur Erickson

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

— Arthur Erickson

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in…

— Arthur Erickson