All Arthur Erickson Quotes
- Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly. Advantage
- Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind. Based
- God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit. Action
- Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over. America
- Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom. Constraints
- Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad. Abroad
- No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them. All
- Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America. America
- Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process. Build
- Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms. Comprehend
- Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems. Advocate
- 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. Analyze
- Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression. Architectural
- Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today. Achieved
- Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which… Alive
- The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers. Achilles
- The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely. Completely
- The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe. Architecture
- We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us. Advise
- We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures. All
- We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist. Ancient
- We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same. Early
- We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity. Art
- Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved. Achieved
- Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it. Art