All of his great works and his many honours provide a more fitting tribute than simple
words can offer. Whether here in his beloved British Columbia, across the country or
around the world, his works speak to his vision and genius. Mr. Erickson represented
the finest example of what can happen when Canadian talent and expertise is brought
to the rest of the world.

He also showed what great things can be accomplished when vision and creativity are
encouraged and allowed to flourish. A society that can elicit the best from its most
talented can achieve great things. The shining examples that he leaves behind for us
and the generation to come - achievements like the Simon Fraser campus, the
Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, and the Canadian
Embassy in Washington D.C. - allow us all to live in a world that is more beautiful for
his having been with us.

We have lost a great Canadian, but his work will remain a testament to his life and an
inspiration to all those who follow in his footsteps.

Michael Ignatieff, M.P.

     Arthur was a jetsetter, a dynamic person,
an icon, etcetera, but he liked people.

     As a person, he was very quiet, very
kind, very simple–not a simple person–
simple living; sort of a Zen kind of person.

Simon Scott

   I first met Arthur more than 30 years ago when he asked me to perform Japanese classical music in the
beautiful garden of his home at one of his events. After the guests had left, he spent a few hours explaining
how and where he had collected a number of beautiful Japanese artifacts and we had from that time, built a
friendship that I will forever cherish. He enjoyed and supported my music and when my husband opened one
of his Japanese restaurants, Arthur attended the opening to offer a speech during the ceremony. Any time
Arthur had Japanese themed events, he always asked that I perform my music and as long as I was in
Vancouver, I would never say no!

Just today I performed my koto music at an event and I played a little something thinking of Arthur and his
love of the Japanese culture and the sounds of the koto....

Arthur will forever be remembered.....

Thank you for sharing, thank you for your teachings and thank you for your friendship!

Teresa Tabo (Kobayashi)

Arthur was always a student of the arts. He never stopped questioning and learning, and
challenging assumptions. He brought the same intellectual rigor and passion to
architecture.

Christopher Erickson

   Ever elegant, ever gragious
Erickson designed without the
polite drafting impulses of
many Canadian architects. He
sought to inspire humanity
through architecture - nothing
less than that. And he led a
movement in Canada to create
buildings that depend on ex-
quisite siting and an honest
expression of raw materials.

As much as Erickson enjoyed
the stripped-back aesthetic of
modernism, he was a romantic
capable of creating distracting
and even special effects with
his architecture.

   He believed that architec-
ture, intelligently conceived
and carefully constructed,
could inspire and possibly
heal. The desire to accomplish
this invested him with a young
heart and an ever-curious
mind.

Erickson lived and he
dreamed. He decided early on
to take a position about archi-
tecture: It should honour and
amaze. Erickson made archi-
tecture to convince Canadians
their aspirations didn't always
have to be meek and mild -
they could think big.

   LISA ROCHON