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
art luxury easy
We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
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.
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With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
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After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.
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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.
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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.
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In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.
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The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.
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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.