Top 64 Quotes by Arthur Erickson

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.

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

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.