Arthur Erickson, lauded Canadian architect, dies

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Canada's most influential architect, Arthur Erickson, died on May 20 at the age of 84. The only Canadian ever to be awarded the AlA's Gold Medal (1986), Erickson built to acclaim in Japan, Kuwait, England, and up and down the U.S. West Coast. His legacy, however, is most evident in the city of his birth and death, Vancouver.rnOne has to go all the way back to Daniel Burnham's shaping of Chicago to find another North American architect who so dominated a large city's architectural culture. Like Burnham, Erickson was celebrated both for his technically innovative and elegant buildings and his progressive urban ideals and schemes. Many regard Erickson as the intellectual author of "Vancouverism" - an approach to city building characterized by developments that are high-density, high-amenity, socially inclusive, and respectful of nature.