The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe. – Arthur Erickson
I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We neednt destroy other cultures with the force of our own. – 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
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
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. – John Ruskin