Arthur Erickson quotes - page 2

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)

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.

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

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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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No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

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

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The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.

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

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Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly. (Arthur Erickson)

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

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

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

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Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

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

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

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Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

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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.

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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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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)

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

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

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

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Arthur Erickson

Occupation: Canadian Architect
Born: June 14, 1924
Died: May 20, 2009
Quotes count: 64

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