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
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.
expression lines profit
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
art inspiration expression
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
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.
america building profession
Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
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.
artist japan europe
Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.