Arthur Erickson Quotes

Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.

It turns out it's not rocket science to design a sacred space.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic.

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture.

I am involved in the architecture of space.

A pool at the edge of the ocean is the simplest geometry, yet you feel connected to the sea. In a forest with the mountains in the background, you also feel the connection to nature, yet it's a very complex geometry. I think architecture is about controlling these feelings.

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us.

I am an architect at heart. I designed every home I've ever had, plus my studio.