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
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.
expression lines profit
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
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.
half last midst nature profound revolution social
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.
doe inspired consciousness
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
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.
years alive tahiti
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.
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.
country team guilty
We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.
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.