Author: Arthur Erickson

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Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

Part 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

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

- Arthur Erickson

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

- Arthur Erickson

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

- Arthur Erickson

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

- Arthur Erickson

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.

- Arthur Erickson

After 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.

After 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

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

- Arthur Erickson

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

- Arthur Erickson

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