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Arthur Erickson
 
Date of birth: 14 June 1924
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: Canada
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Architect

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    http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/arts/story.html?id=179e7228-6733-427c-9d2e-2070f872f0e0&k=27738. Most of his buildings are modernist concrete structures designed to respond to the natural conditions of its location, especially climate. Many buildings, such as the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, are inspired by the post and beam architecture of the Coastal Firs .... (More...)
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" After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared. "

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

Arthur Erickson
" Are we not the whores of big business, selling our product for their commercial lust? "

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
" Because we are hopelessly immersed in ourselves and our effect on things, only the immediate present is significant, and in the present the hope for the future. "

Arthur Erickson
" Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly. "

Arthur Erickson
" Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind. "

Arthur Erickson
" Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place? "

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

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
" Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within. "

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
" Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression. "

Arthur Erickson
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