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Arthur Erickson
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Arthur Erickson
Age: 84 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 14
Died: 2009
Died: May 20
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Arthur Charles Erickson
Arthur C. Erickson
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We regard those other cultures such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1000 or 2000 years ago - as undeveloped.
Arthur Erickson
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
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
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
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
We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
Arthur Erickson
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
Arthur Erickson
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
Arthur Erickson
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place in all this? Unfortunately we are no longer the interpreters of our culture's myths but the followers of that dubious client, the developer, who has little patience with the art of architecture, the fine detail and obscure promise, which can upset his financial activity.
Arthur Erickson
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
Arthur Erickson
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
Arthur Erickson
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
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
We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.
Arthur Erickson
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
Arthur Erickson
This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.
Arthur Erickson
We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.
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
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.
Arthur Erickson
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
Arthur Erickson
