Author: Arthur Erickson

Quotes

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

- Arthur Erickson

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.

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.

- 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

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

- 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

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

- Arthur Erickson

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

- Arthur Erickson

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.

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.

- 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

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