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
thinking artist way
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
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.
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.
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 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.
artist names historical
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
dream believe land
The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
artist looks advantage
Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
expression lines profit
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
artist engineering cities
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.