Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.
Arthur EricksonThis 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 EricksonAfter 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.
Arthur EricksonThe Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.
Arthur EricksonThe essentially unchangeable established order of things, slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely...
Arthur EricksonThe 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 EricksonSpace 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 EricksonThe 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 EricksonWe have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
Arthur EricksonOur incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
Arthur EricksonModernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
Arthur EricksonWe settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.
Arthur EricksonLife is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.
Arthur Erickson