Arthur Erickson

Arthur Charles Erickson was a Canadian architect and urban planner. He studied Asian languages at the University of British Columbia, and later earned a degree in architecture from McGill University.

Date of birth:
14th June, 1924
Date of death:
20th May, 2009
"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
Topic(s): Art
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"Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved."
― Arthur Erickson
Topic(s): History
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"Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom."
― Arthur Erickson
Topic(s): Freedom
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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."
― Arthur Erickson
Topic(s): Architecture
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"Architecture doesn’t come from theory. You don’t think your way through a building."
― Arthur Erickson
Topic(s): Architecture
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"You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film."
― Arthur Erickson
Topic(s): Experience
"This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see… the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world."
― Arthur Erickson
Topic(s): Change
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"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
Topic(s): Architecture
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"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."
― Arthur Erickson
Topic(s): Architecture
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"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
Topic(s): History
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