Arthur Erickson

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#artists #creations #events #great #historical

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

— Arthur Erickson

#demands #destinations #disease #existed #his

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

— Arthur Erickson

#beginning #guided #quiet #underlies #voice

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

#burgeoning #civilization #direction #early #flow

There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#awareness #becoming #immediate #implications #increasing

There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#doubt #fundamental #half #half century #last

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. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#become #begin #change #culture #cultures

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

#celebrate #century #chance #committed #developer

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#architecture #exceptional #radiated #vitality

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

— Arthur Erickson

#countries #foreign #foreign countries #guilty #how