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Arthur Erickson Quotes

Canadian - Architect | June 14, 1924 - May 20, 2009

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

Arthur Erickson

City Engineering Process Landscape

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

Arthur Erickson

Tradition Craft Europe Industry

Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive.

Arthur Erickson

Great Alive Cultures Years Spoiled

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.

Arthur Erickson

Change Great Culture World Stand

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

Arthur Erickson

Success Great Dream Land Need Empty

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

Focus Space Design You Never Again

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

Arthur Erickson

Today Improvement World Confident

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

Arthur Erickson

Architecture Building Think You Way

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.

Arthur Erickson

Culture Environment Serious Human

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

Arthur Erickson

Look Build Modernism Advantage Took

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.

Arthur Erickson

Nature Culture More Human Cultures

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

Arthur Erickson

Building Direction Tradition Craft

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