Arthur Erickson Quotes (64 Quotes)

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

The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.

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.

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

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

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

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

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

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

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

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.