“The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.”
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“Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.”
ArchitectureAll Quotes by 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.”
Architecture“Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.”
Architecture“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“You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.”
Experience“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“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 have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.”
Knowledge“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“The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.”
Architecture“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“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“The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.”
Architecture“Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.”
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“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“We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.”
Architecture“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“Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?”
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