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

The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely.

Arthur Erickson

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

Arthur Erickson

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

Arthur Erickson

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.

Arthur Erickson

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Arthur Erickson

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

Arthur Erickson

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.

Arthur Erickson

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Arthur Erickson

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

Arthur Erickson

We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

Arthur Erickson

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

Arthur Erickson

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

Arthur Erickson

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

Arthur Erickson

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

Arthur Erickson

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Arthur Erickson

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

Arthur Erickson

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

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

Arthur Erickson

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.

Arthur Erickson

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

Arthur Erickson

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

Arthur Erickson

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

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

Arthur Erickson

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

Arthur Erickson

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

Arthur Erickson

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

Arthur Erickson

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

Arthur Erickson

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.

Arthur Erickson

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

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

Arthur Erickson

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

Arthur Erickson

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

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

Arthur Erickson

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

Arthur Erickson

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

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.

Arthur Erickson