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 Architecture
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 Space
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
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. -Arthur Erickson Architecture
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 Architecture
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom. -Arthur Erickson Freedom
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building. -Arthur Erickson Architecture
The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe. -Arthur Erickson Architecture
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. -Arthur Erickson Architecture
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization. -Arthur Erickson Attitude
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it. -Arthur Erickson Architecture
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 Architecture
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 Attitude
The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning. -Arthur Erickson Architecture
