Arthur Erickson
Arthur Erickson
Arthur Charles Erickson, CCwas 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...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth14 June 1924
CountryCanada
Arthur Erickson quotes about
heart rhyming guides
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
artist film building
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
artist engineering cities
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
land use settlement
Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.
meaningful glasses space
Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.
art inspiration expression
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.
badass moving heart
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
thinking artist way
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
amount
No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.
spiritual moving space
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.