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Arthur Erickson [1924-0] Canadian

Rank: 102
Architect

Arthur Charles Erickson, CC was a Canadian architect and urban planner. He studied Asian languages at the University of British Columbia, and later earned a degree in architecture from McGill University.

Architecture, Great, Design, Art, Attitude, Space, Freedom, God, Men, Success

Quote	Tags	Rank
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.	Architecture, Art	101
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.	God, Men	102
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.		103
Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.		104
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.	Architecture, Great	105
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 is still alive.	Great	106
The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.	Great, Success	107
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.	Great	108
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.		109
The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.		110
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.	Architecture, Space	111
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.	Architecture	112
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.		113
No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.		114
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.	Freedom	115
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.		116
We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.	Architecture	117
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.		118
In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.		119
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.	Architecture, Design	120
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.		121
The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.		122
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.	Architecture, Art	123
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.		124
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.		125
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.	Design, Space	126
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.	Architecture	201
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.		202
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.		203
The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.	Architecture	204
The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.		205
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.	Attitude	206
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?	Architecture	207
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.		208
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.		209
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.		210
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.	Design	211
Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.		212
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.		213
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.		214
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.		215
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.		216
The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.		217
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.		218
The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.		219
The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.	Architecture	220
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.		221
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.	Architecture	222
We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.		223
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.		224
We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.		225
We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.		226
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.		301
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.		302
Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.		303
Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.		304
Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.		305
Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.		306
Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.		307
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.	Attitude	308
The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.		309
There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.		310
We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.		311
Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.		312

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