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
attitude artist gdp
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.
technology artist civilization
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
artist high-heels typical
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.
artist order forgotten
The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.
artist japan europe
The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
artist culture exploitation
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
artist japan littles
We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.
artist other-cultures incapacity
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
art enemy architecture
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
art expression design
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
artist japan europe
Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.
men artist self
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
artist america management
Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
artist gone modernism
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.