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
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.
amount
No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.
thinking artist way
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
badass moving heart
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
land use settlement
Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.
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.
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.
heart rhyming guides
The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
artist engineering cities
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
expression lines profit
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
artist film building
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
art light energy
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
demand disease tourism
The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
artist other-cultures incapacity
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.