The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe. Arthur Erickson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind. Arthur Erickson Read Quote
Architecture doesn’t come from theory. You don’t think your way through a building. Arthur Erickson Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers. Arthur Erickson Read Quote
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression. Arthur Erickson Read Quote
