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
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Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.
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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.
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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.
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What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
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Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
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Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
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The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.
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It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
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God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
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Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
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The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
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Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
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