01UndatedInspiration 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.Arthur Erickson / quote ↗
02UndatedAfter 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.Arthur Erickson / quote ↗
03UndatedLife 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.Arthur Erickson / quote ↗
04UndatedThere is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.Arthur Erickson / quote ↗
05UndatedPart of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.Arthur Erickson / quote ↗
06UndatedSpace 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.Arthur Erickson / quote ↗
07UndatedWe are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.Arthur Erickson / quote ↗
08UndatedGreat buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.Arthur Erickson / quote ↗
09UndatedWhenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.Arthur Erickson / quote ↗
10UndatedArchitecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.Arthur Erickson / quote ↗
11UndatedRationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.Arthur Erickson / quote ↗
12UndatedThe details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.Arthur Erickson / quote ↗
15UndatedThe new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.Arthur Erickson / quote ↗
16UndatedThe way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.Arthur Erickson / quote ↗
17UndatedToday's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.Arthur Erickson / quote ↗
18UndatedNo wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.Arthur Erickson / quote ↗
19UndatedWith production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.Arthur Erickson / quote ↗
20UndatedModernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.Arthur Erickson / quote ↗
