erickson Quotes

“Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.”

“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.”

“No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.”

“You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.”

“Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.”

“The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.”

“Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.”

“We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.”

“Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.”

“The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.”