Arthur Erickson

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them. ”

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place? ”

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. ”