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Arthur Erickson
Canadian Architect
Born: Jun 14, 1924
Died: May 20, 2009
America Architecture Art Building Great Today
Related authors: Antoni Gaudi Frank Gehry Frank Lloyd Wright Louis Kahn Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Maya Lin Walter Gropius Zaha Hadid
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. Arthur Erickson
Great Heart Architecture Rare Every Spirit Case Poetic Buildings Always Been Move Products Unique
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 Own Other Plead Herself Our Destroy More Force Cultures Than Human Which Much Fragile Conservation
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom. Arthur Erickson
Freedom Before Sense Gone Everything Released Constraints Had Modernism Us Euphoric
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 Everyone Dream Seemed Spiritually Merchant Empty Make-Believe Because Land Disney Need
The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation. Arthur Erickson
Entertainment Dark Feeling Desolation Bit Delusion Devoid Left Hit May After Meaning Us Initial Amuse
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
History Man Sense Distinguished Thread Superiority Civilization Outward Course Command His Western Western Civilization Preoccupation
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
Art Science Medium Responsive Inspiration Instinctively Ideas May Senses Expression
Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America. Arthur Erickson
Building North North America America Specialization Professions Nowhere Deeply
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture. Arthur Erickson
Art Architecture Vitality Exceptional
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures. Arthur Erickson
Exploitation About Cultures Human Conscience
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building. Arthur Erickson
You Architecture Building Think Way Through Come Your Theory
Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly. Arthur Erickson
Build Carelessly Took Cheaply Advantage Look Builders Modernism Eventually
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over. Arthur Erickson
Creative Other Our Something Mystery Self Takes Over Than Act Creative Act Conscious
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
Design Dream Rather No Wonder Like California Industry Buildings Wonder Than Where Them Desert Film Film Industry Started
Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land. Arthur Erickson
Best Settlement Our Without Regard Land Use
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression. Arthur Erickson
Profit Architectural Bottom Bottom Line Contemporary Line Source Very Mantra Expression
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. Arthur Erickson
Spiritual Architecture Space Statement Dimension Physical Spiritual Dimension Structure Contains Always Been Moves Us Much
The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process. Arthur Erickson
Work Responsible Totally Seem He Likes Make Were His Begins Artist Often Process Explain Reasonable Appear
The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe. Arthur Erickson
Architecture Lightness New Japan Transparency Europe
The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning. Arthur Erickson
Architecture Beginning Way Guided Voice Quiet
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
Awareness Increasing Immediate Solution Prone Implications Accept Without Becoming Questioning Less Larger Things
We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward. Arthur Erickson
Architecture Research Neither Threat Consultants Takes Industry Limited Nor Provide Itself Which Litigation Choice Regulations Forward
We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same. Arthur Erickson
Today Knowledge Our Thorough Period Fairly Because Motivations Same Early
Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved. Arthur Erickson
History Has-Been Results Performed Been Western Done Achieved Deed Actions
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption. Arthur Erickson
Alone Consumption Mass Industry Line Goal Dominated North North America America Production Standardization Assembly Assembly Line

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