“Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.”
Architecture
“We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.”
KnowledgeAll Quotes by Arthur Erickson
“The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.”
Success“The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.”
Architecture“The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.”
Architecture“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.”
Change“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.”
Learning“We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.”
Knowledge“We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.”
Architecture“Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.”
Beauty“You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.”
Experience“With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.”
Alone“Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?”
Architecture“Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.”
Architecture“No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.”
Design“There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.”
Nature“What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.”
History“There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.”
Attitude“Today'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.”
Architecture“Inspiration 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.”
Science“Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.”
Architecture