Arthur Erickson best Design Quotes – “No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.”
Arthur Erickson best Design Quotes – “After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.”
Arthur Erickson best Attitude Quotes – “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.”
Arthur Erickson best Attitude Quotes – “There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.”
Arthur Erickson best Architecture Quotes – “The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.”
Arthur Erickson best Architecture Quotes – “Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.”
Arthur Erickson best Architecture Quotes – “The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.”
Arthur Erickson best Architecture Quotes – “Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.”
Arthur Erickson best Architecture Quotes – “Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.”
Arthur Erickson best Architecture Quotes – “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.”
Arthur Erickson best Architecture Quotes – “We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.”
Arthur Erickson best Architecture Quotes – “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 celebrate the worth of his enterprise.”
Arthur Erickson best Architecture Quotes – “The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.”
Arthur Erickson best Architecture Quotes – “Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?”
Arthur Erickson best Architecture Quotes – “Architecture doesn’t come from theory. You don’t think your way through a building.”