Arthur Erickson

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are…

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed…

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and…

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor…

Architecture doesn’t come from theory. You don’t think your way through a building…

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric…

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture…

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art…

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it…

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our…

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our…

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor…

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of…

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture…