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
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.
meaningful glasses space
Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.
spiritual moving space
Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
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.