“We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.”
Knowledge
“Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.”
TechnologyAll Quotes by 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.”
Change“Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.”
History“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.”
Design“Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.”
Architecture“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“Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.”
Technology“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“Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.”
Freedom“We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.”
Architecture“With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.”
Alone“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“The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.”
Architecture“Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.”
Architecture“You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.”
Experience“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.”
Architecture“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“Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.”
Architecture“The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.”
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