“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.”
Attitude
“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.”
ChangeAll Quotes by Arthur Erickson
“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“Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.”
Architecture“The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.”
Success“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“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.”
Nature“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“Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.”
Architecture“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“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“Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.”
History“The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.”
Architecture“Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.”
Architecture“Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?”
Architecture“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“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“You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.”
Experience“Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.”
Beauty“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