Arthur Erickson

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

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.