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 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.
artist culture exploitation
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
artist other-cultures incapacity
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
artist japan europe
Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.
men artist self
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
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.
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.
artist deeds-done action
Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
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.
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.
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.
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.