Quote

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

Arthur Erickson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Arthur Erickson
Age: 84 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 14
Died: 2009
Died: May 20
Architect
University Teacher
Vancouver
British Columbia
Arthur Charles Erickson
Arthur C. Erickson
Artist
Production
America
Productions
Mass
Line
Standardization
Industry
Dominated
Lines
Assembly
Alone
Consumption
Goal
North

More quotes by Arthur Erickson

Image
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
Image
Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
Arthur Erickson
Image
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
Image
Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.
Arthur Erickson
Image
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
Arthur Erickson
Image
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
Arthur Erickson
Image
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
Arthur Erickson
Image
The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.
Arthur Erickson
Image
We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
Arthur Erickson
Image
The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
Arthur Erickson
Image
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
Arthur Erickson
Image
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization...
Arthur Erickson
Image
No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.
Arthur Erickson
Image
Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.
Arthur Erickson
Image
Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
Arthur Erickson
Image
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
Arthur Erickson
Image
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
Arthur Erickson
Image
We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.
Arthur Erickson
Image
We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.
Arthur Erickson
Image
I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
Arthur Erickson