Author: Arthur Erickson

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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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