73 Quotes by Arthur Erickson

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

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

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.

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.

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.