Arthur Erickson

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. ”

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms. ”

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events. ”

We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist. ”

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before. ”

The 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. ”

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. ”