Author: Arthur Erickson

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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

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

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

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

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

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

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

- 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

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

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