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
america building profession
Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
artist america management
Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
artist america goal
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
art brave-new-world america
The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.
doe inspired consciousness
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
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.
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.
advocating university fragmentation
Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.
artist other-cultures incapacity
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
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.
dark feelings may
The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.