Canadian - Architect | June 14, 1924 - May 20, 2009
There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.
Arthur Erickson
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There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.
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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.
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Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
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We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.
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We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
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We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
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We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.
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We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.
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We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
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We regard those other cultures, such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1,000 or 2,000 years ago, as undeveloped.
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We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
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