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

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 c…

- Arthur Erickson

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

- 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 expre…

- Arthur Erickson

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 mov…

- Arthur Erickson

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

- Arthur Erickson

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

- Arthur Erickson

We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspirat…

- Arthur Erickson

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the u…

- Arthur Erickson