Quotes by Arthur Erickson

Arthur Erickson

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

Bankers

Culture

May

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Badass

Heart

Moving

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.

Artist

Conservation

Other Cultures

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

Criminal Mind

Emptiness

Illusion

In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.

Artist

Country

Technique

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

Glasses

Meaningful

Space

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

America

Artist

Management

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

Artist

California

Dream

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.

America

Building

Profession

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

Artist

Cities

Engineering

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Quotes by Arthur Erickson

Arthur Erickson

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

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.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

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