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.

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.

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

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

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.

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

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

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

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.

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.

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.