Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America. Arthur Erickson Read Quote
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process. Arthur Erickson Read Quote
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms. Arthur Erickson Read Quote
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line. Arthur Erickson Read Quote
The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely. Arthur Erickson Read Quote
The innovative spirit was America’s strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts. Arthur Erickson Read Quote
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. Arthur Erickson Read Quote
