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
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.
men civilization thread
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.
attitude artist civilization
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
doe inspired consciousness
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
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.
america building profession
Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
art enemy architecture
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
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.