Arthur Erickson Quotes

We Are Not Peddlers Of The Fashionable. We Believe That Good Design Defies Fashion, Is Truly Innovative, Eminently Sensible, Yet A Source Of Inspiration To Those Who Have The Pleasure Of Living With It.

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.

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.

The Way Of Architecture Is The Quiet Voice That Underlies It And Has Guided It From The Beginning.

This Great, Though Disastrous, Culture Can Only Change As We Begin To Stand Off And See... The Inveterate Materialism Which Has Become The Model For Cultures Around The World.

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.

The Details Are The Very Source Of Expression In Architecture. But We Are Caught In A Vice Between Art And The Bottom Line.

Does An Architecture To Assuage The Spirit Have A Place In All This? Unfortunately We Are No Longer The Interpreters Of Our Culture's Myths But The Followers Of That Dubious Client, The Developer, Who Has Little Patience With The Art Of Architecture, The Fine Detail And Obscure Promise, Which Can Upset His Financial Activity.

The Achilles Heel Of The Americas Was The Lack Of Cultural Confidence Typical Of New Settlers.

The New Architecture Of Transparency And Lightness Comes From Japan And Europe.

We Are Guilty For Sending Teams Into Foreign Countries To Advise Them How To Be Like Us.

We Are Yet To Have A Conscience At All About The Exploitation Of Human Cultures.