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
voice way architecture
The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
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.
artist america management
Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
artist gone modernism
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
innovation aesthetic
Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.
dream artist california
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
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.
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.