“ The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line. Arthur Erickson
“ Life is rich always changing always challenging and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood concrete glass and steel of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful… Arthur Erickson
“ 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. 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. Arthur Erickson
“ With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption. Arthur Erickson
“ Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise. Arthur Erickson
“ The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning. Arthur Erickson
“ Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building. Arthur Erickson
“ Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom. Arthur Erickson
“ 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. Arthur Erickson
“ Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today. Arthur Erickson
“ There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization. Arthur Erickson
“ 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. Arthur Erickson
“ I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own. Arthur Erickson
“ Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. Arthur Erickson
“ Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved. 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. Arthur Erickson
