“The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.”
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“Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.”
ArchitectureAll Quotes by Arthur Erickson
“We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.”
Knowledge“Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.”
Architecture“Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.”
Freedom“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 a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.”
Attitude“The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.”
Success“You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.”
Experience“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“With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.”
Alone“The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.”
Architecture“Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.”
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“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“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“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“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 new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.”
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.”
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