The way of architecture is the quiet voi... | Arthur Erickson

Voice Architecture

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

- Arthur Erickson

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Confidence

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

- Arthur Erickson

Conscience

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

- Arthur Erickson

Countries

We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.

- Arthur Erickson

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.

- Arthur Erickson

Nature

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

Engineering

Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.

- Arthur Erickson

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