The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe. – 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
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
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority. – Arthur Erickson