Arthur Erickson Quotes
We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.
The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
We regard those other cultures such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1000 or 2000 years ago - as "undeveloped".
The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.