“The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.”
Architecture
“Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.”
BeautyAll Quotes by Arthur Erickson
“Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.”
Architecture“Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.”
Beauty“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“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 way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.”
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“With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.”
Alone“The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.”
Success“Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.”
Freedom“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“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“Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.”
Architecture“Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.”
Architecture“We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.”
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“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“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“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