Arthur C. Erickson

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Arthur C. Erickson
Born 1924; Vancouver, Canada
Died May 20, 2009; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Education University of British Columbia, McGill University
Firms Erickson Massey, Arthur Erickson Architectural Corp.
Notes Recipient of the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal, 1986
At Great Buildings http://www.GreatBuildings.com/architects/Arthur_C._Erickson.html

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[edit] Works

  • Filberg House, at Comox, British Columbia, Canada, 1958.
  • Graham House at West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1962 (with Geoffrey Massey).
  • Baldwin House, at Burnaby British Columbia, Canada, 1963.
  • Simon Fraser University Master Plan and Campus Buildings, at Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, 1963.
  • Graham House, at West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1963.   GreatBuildings page
  • Smith House, at West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1964 (with Geoffrey Massey).
  • MacMillan Blodel Building, at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1965.
  • Catton House, at West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1967 (with Geoffrey Massey).
  • Craig House, at Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, 1967 (with Geoffrey Massey).
  • Lethbridge Universtiy Main Hall and Master Plan, at Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, 1968.
  • Bank of Canada, at Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 1969.
  • University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology, at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1971.
  • Helmut Eppich House, at West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1972.
  • Hillborn House, at Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, 1974.
  • Roy Thompson Hall, at Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1976 (with Mathers & Haldenby).
  • Pacific Northwest House, at Seattle, Washington, 1977.
  • Fire Island House, at Fire Island, New York, 1977.   GreatBuildings page
  • Evergreen Building, at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1978.
  • Keevil House, at Savary Island, British Columbia, Canada, 1978.
  • Hugo Eppich House, at West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1979.
  • Montiverdi Estates, at West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1979.
  • Napp Laboratories, at Cambridge, England, 1979.
  • California Plaza, at Los Angeles, California, 1980.
  • Robson Square and Provincial Law Courts, at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1980.   GreatBuildings page
  • King's Landing, at Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1981.
  • San Diego Convention Center, at San Diego, California, 1981.
  • Canadian Chancery, at Washington D.C., 1978 to 1989.
  • Puget Sound House, at Tacoma, Washington, 1983.
  • Etisalat Towers, at Abu Dhabi & Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 1985.
  • Gilbert Hall, at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 1985 (with McLellan & Copenhagen Inc.).
  • Khosla House, at Portola Valley, California, 1986.
  • McGaugh Hall, at University of California, Irvine, California, 1986.
  • Fresno City Hall, at Fresno, California, 1987.
  • Balboa Beach House, at Malibu, California, 1988.
  • Kaiser-Permanente Hospital, at Baldwin Park, California, 1988.
  • MacLelland Hall, at University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona, 1988 (with NBBJ-Gresham Larson).
  • Christopher Cohan Center, at San Luis Obispo, California, 1989 (with Alberto Bertoli and John Carl Warnecke & Assoc.).
  • Koerner Library, at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1992 (with Aitken Wregglesworth Assoc.).
  • Castainer House, at Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, 1996.
  • Kuwait Oil Complex, at Kuwait City, Kuwait, 1996 (with Atelier and Salem Al-Marzouk & Sabah Abi-Hanna).
  • Maui House, at Maui, Hawaii, 1998.
  • Waterfall Building, at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2001.
  • Museum of Glass, at Tacoma, Washington, 2002.

[edit] Discussion

(b. Vancouver, Canada 1924, d. Vancouver, Canada, May 20, 2009)

Arthur Erickson was born in Vancouver, Canada in 1924. Considered one of Canada's greatest architects, Erickson studied at the University of British Columbia and McGill University, Montreal. After traveling extensively in Europe and the Far East, he returned to practice in Vancouver. In 1953, he established a practice which eventually expanded to Toronto and the Middle East. Erickson/ Massey Associates was formed in 1963 after Erickson and Geoffrey Massey won a design competition.

Contributing to the rebirth of Modernism within Canada, Erickson has shown considerable skill in adapting and extending principles drawn from Le Corbusier. He has shown a unique ability to handle large-scale contemporary architecture in the urban context by creating bold architectural forms that exploit the effects of various materials and structural systems.

Since 1972, as principal of Arthur Erickson Architects, Erickson has continued the search for large-scale images. In his later works, Erickson has generated a new spatial complexity in which typically simple detailing and neutral colors set off objects within the space.

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Recipient of the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal, 1986.

Email address: info@arthurerickson.com

[edit] Erickson at Wikipedia

Arthur Erickson

Arthur Charles Erickson, CC ( June 14, 1924 – May 20, 2009) was an internationally celebrated 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.

Biography

Most of his buildings are modernist concrete structures designed to respond to the natural conditions of its location, especially climate. Many buildings, such as the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, are inspired by the post and beam architecture of the Coastal First Nations. Additionally, Erickson is also known for numerous futuristic designs such as the Fresno City Hall and the Biological Sciences Building at the University of California, Irvine.

The personal selection of Arthur Erickson as the architect for the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC by then-Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was controversial because Trudeau overruled the objections and choices of the embassy's design committee. Erickson's biographer Nicholas Olsberg described the building as "making fun of the ridiculous terms to which buildings must adhere in Washington... mocking the US and all of its imperial pretensions."Schelling, Steven. "Arthur Erickson, 1924-2009." Xtra, Friday, May 22, 2009.

Erickson was born in Vancouver, the son of Oscar Erickson and Myrtle Chatterton. He served in the Canadian Army Intelligence Corps during World War II. After graduating from McGill in 1950, Erickson taught at the University of British Columbia and designed houses in partnership with Geoffrey Massey. In 1963, Erickson and Massey submitted the winning design for Simon Fraser University.

In 1973 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1981. His family announced that he died in Vancouver on May 20, 2009.Martin, Sandra. "The greatest architect we have ever produced," The Globe and Mail, Friday, May 22, 2009.

Erickson lived in Point Grey with his life partner and interior design collaborator, Francisco Kripacz.Schelling, Steven. "Arthur Erickson, 1924-2009." Xtra, Friday, May 22, 2009.

Works

[[wikipedia:File:UBC Museum of Anthropology Building (Vancouver).jpg|thumb|250px|Museum of Anthropology at UBC, (1976)]]


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[edit] External Links

Arthur Erickson Architectural Corporation — The firm's official web site

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