Canadian - Architect | June 14, 1924 - May 20, 2009
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
Arthur Erickson
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Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
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Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
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Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
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Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
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No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.
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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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With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
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God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
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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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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 details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
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