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Arthur Erickson
June 14, 1924 -
Nationality: Canadian
Category: Architect

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

   

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.

   

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

   

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

   

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

   

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

   

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

We regard those other cultures, such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1,000 or 2,000 years ago, as undeveloped.

   

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.

   

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

   

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.

   

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

   

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

   

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.

   

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

   

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

   

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

   

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