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 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.
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.
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.
spiritual space impact
The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.
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.
country artist crafts
In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.
artist ecosystems fundamentals
No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.