Arthur Erickson Quotes

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Arthur Erickson

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

Arthur Erickson

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.

Arthur Erickson

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Arthur Erickson

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.

Arthur Erickson

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Arthur Erickson

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

Arthur Erickson

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.

Arthur Erickson