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
artist deeds-done action
Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
art energy building
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
artist choices research
We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
appreciate towns medieval
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.
fashion believe inspiration
We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it.
self creative mystery
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
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.
voice way architecture
The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
artist likes responsible
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.
spiritual space impact
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.
believe artist years
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.
culture may serious
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.
artist other-cultures conservation
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.
country artist crafts
In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.