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Arthur Charles Erickson, CC (June 14, 1924 – May 20, 2009) was a Canadian architect and urban planner. He studied Asian languages at the University of British Columbia, and later earned a degree in architecture from McGill University.

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Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

Artist, Japan, Europe, Tradition, Craft

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

Spiritual, Moving, Space, Physical, Architecture, Structure

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

Artist, Cultures, Incapacity, Measuring, Other Cultures, Terms

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.

Civilization, Command, Distinguished, Men, Preoccupation, Western

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

Act, Creative, Mystery, Self

We regard those other cultures, such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1,000 or 2,000 years ago, as undeveloped.

Artist, Believe, India, People, Years

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

Artist, Building, Convey, Film, Photographs

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

Architecture, Artist, Europe, Japan, Lightness

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

Architecture, Doe, Place, Spirit

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

America, Art, Brave, Brave New World, Everything, Spirit

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.

Confident, Expansion, Improvement, Rome, Today, World

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.

Analyze, Artist, Attitude, Order, Part, Western

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.

Appreciate, Medieval, Town, Towns, Understand

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

Art, Aware, Building, Energy

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

Demand, Destinations, Existed, Tourism, Tourists, Values

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Badass, Buildings, Heart, Moving, Poetic, Products

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.

Aesthetic, Development, Impact, Left, Space, Spiritual

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.

Art, Expression, Inspiration, Science

Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.

Artist, Land, Settlement, Use

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.

Actions, Artist, Credit, Frequent, Men, Self

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