The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land. - Arthur Erickson
We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist. - Arthur Erickson
We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us. - 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
Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved. - Arthur Erickson
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process. - Arthur Erickson
Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly. - Arthur Erickson
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit. - Arthur Erickson
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film. - 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
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
In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect. - 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
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today. - Arthur Erickson
The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation. - Arthur Erickson
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
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
The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely. - Arthur Erickson
No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems. - Arthur Erickson
Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind. - Arthur Erickson
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events. - Arthur Erickson
Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture. - Arthur Erickson