Quotes by Arthur Erickson

Arthur Erickson

Canadian architect and urban

Lived from: 1924 - 2009

Born: 14 june 1924 Died: 20 may 2009

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  • Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
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  • Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
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  • Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
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  • Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
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  • Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.
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  • Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.
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  • 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.
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  • Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
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  • Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
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  • Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
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  • 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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  • The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.
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  • 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.
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  • The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
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  • The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
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  • The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.
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  • The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
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  • The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.
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  • The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
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  • The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
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