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
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.
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
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.
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.
In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
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.
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
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.
