Arthur Erickson quotes

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

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

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.

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

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

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

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.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

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.

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

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

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

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.