“Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.”
Architecture
“Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.”
ArchitectureAll Quotes by Arthur Erickson
“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“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“The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.”
Architecture“You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.”
Experience“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“The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.”
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?”
Architecture“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“The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.”
Architecture“Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.”
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“Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.”
Freedom“Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.”
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“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“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“With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.”
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