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.

  • 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.

  • Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

  • Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.