Arthur Erickson

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

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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. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

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

— Arthur Erickson

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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

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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

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

— Arthur Erickson

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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

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

— Arthur Erickson

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

— Arthur Erickson

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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. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

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