Layered Landscapes: Constructing Form and Meaning from the Sketches of Arthur Erickson

摘要

Arthur Erickson (1924-2009) was perhaps Canada's first "starchitect," famous internationally for a unique architectural vision that integrated his modernist buildings comfortably within their natural surroundings. During a career lasting over fifty years, he designed iconic buildings in Canada and around the world, including the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, the campus of the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, the addition to the Bank of Canada building in Ottawa, and the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. As part of the necessary and inevitable assessment of Erickson's legacy after his death, the Canadian Architectural Archives at the University of Calgary mounted a small, tightly focused exhibit drawn from its holdings, featuring sketches by Erickson created during the first fifteen years of his architectural practice.