14/12/14 KPU PRESENTATION CADA ARCH FUNDIMENTALS1200 PROJECT BY: LAZAR SAVIC ARTHUR ERICKSON LOG-01 THE STORY OF ARTHUR CHARLES ERICKSON Arthur Erickson was born June the 14 th, 1924 in Vancouver BC to Myrtle and Oscar Erickson. He spent much of his childhood surrounded by the arts and taking part in them himself, often creating paintings influenced by the surroundings of the Vancouver west coast. Erickson had surrounded himself with local artists such as Bert Binning, Jack Shadbolt, Lawren Harris and George Swinton. LOG-01 THE STORY OF ARTHUR CHARLES ERICKSON Erickson was enrolled in the Canadian Army Intelligence Corps during World War II where he served as a Japanese-English translator. Erickson Studied for a few years at the University of British Columbia where his main focus of study was in foreign diplomacy. It was only after a visit to Bert Binnings home in West Vancouver that he began to think of a career in architecture. Then, upon reading a copy of Fortune magazine which contained the first colour photographs of Frank Lloyd Wrights Taliesin West house in Arizona, Erickson immediately made the decision to pursue architecture. Erickson then transferred in 1946 to McGill Universitys Department of Architecture. He graduated from McGill top of his class in 1950. LOG-01 Famous Local Work UBC Museum of Anthropology Filberg Residence 1957 Waterfall Building Vancouver Vancouver Robson Law Courts Complex Evergreen Building Vancouver Giant spring-Provincial Court Vancouver LOG-01 Famous International Work One, California Plaza Expo 70 Osaka Japan Canadian Pavilion Fresno City Hall Tacoma Museum of Glass Canadian Embassy Washington D.C. NAPP Laboratories Cambridge England LOG-02 CONCEPT IDEA INSPIRATION LOG-02 FINAL CONCEPT LOG-02 AFTER CONTRUCTION LOG-01 THE CAREER OF ARTHUR CHARLES ERICKSON In Arthur Erickson: An Architects Life, David Stouck wisely takes the middle road, a more or less chronological approach that opens and closes with insights into the man and the people he loved, with stops in between at the major events, encounters and works of a half-century career. The early chapters are a revelation. Arthurs parents, Oscar and Myrtle Erickson, were an ebullient and eccentric pair straight out of You Cant Take It With You. Despite losing his legs in the First World War, Oscar was a dynamo at his dry goods business, a keen sportsman and an amateur painter. LOG-01 THE CAREER OF ARTHUR CHARLES ERICKSON Myrtle was an enthusiastic, if not entirely competent, cook, social convenor and arts patron who helped found the Vancouver Art Gallery. Erickson with mother Myrtle Once, after a quarrel, Arthurs younger brother Don killed all the fish in Arthurs aquarium. The family couldnt afford to restock the tank, so at his mothers urging Arthur painted fish on his bedroom walls instead. He began by copying two fish from photographs in National Geographic and then, with growing confidence, covered all four walls of his room with underwater scenes featuring sunken wrecks, seahorses, sharks, shrimp. LOG-01 THE CAREER OF ARTHUR CHARLES ERICKSON Impressed, his father bought the boy his own set of paints. Arthur then painted his brothers room in a jungle theme, making it a favourite hangout for neighbourhood boys. Then one of Myrtles friends paid the budding muralist $50 to paint an English hunting scene in her basement. The book includes strikingly detailed accounts, not only of Arthurs accomplishments and education, but also of his adventures with friends and even of his thoughts. LOG-01 THE CAREER OF ARTHUR CHARLES ERICKSON Stouck says in an authors note that the biography is grounded in a series of interviews with Erickson in the four years preceding his death in But he has also spoken to dozens of the architects friends, family and associates, going back to his adolescence in the 1930s. Fortunately, several key figures lived into their 80s with their memories in good shape, as well as Jessie Binning at age 100. Despite lacklustre UBC grades, Erickson was accepted into the architecture program at McGill thanks to the intercession of Lawren Harris, who was part of his mothers arty set in Vancouver. Erickson was especially taken with Mies van der Rohes expansive use of glass and Le Corbusiers work with concrete two media that would dominate Ericksons major designs. LOG-03 REKNOWNED TIMELINE 1985: One California Plaza, Los Angeles, CaliforniaOne California PlazaLos AngelesCalifornia 1987: Admiralty Place housing, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (with Cowle and Martin) [11]DartmouthNova Scotia [11] 1988: Dalhousie University Law Library (building addition), Halifax, Nova ScotiaDalhousie UniversityHalifaxNova Scotia 1989: Canadian Chancery, Washington, DCCanadian ChanceryWashington, DC 1989: Markham Civic Centre, Markham, Ontario (with Richard Stevens Architects Limited)Markham Civic CentreMarkham, Ontario 1989: Convention Center, San Diego, CaliforniaConvention CenterSan DiegoCalifornia 1989: The Kingbridge Centre, King City, OntarioThe Kingbridge CentreKing City, Ontario 1989: Inn at Laurel Point addition, Victoria, BCVictoria, BC 1991: Fresno City Hall, Fresno, CaliforniaFresno City HallFresno, California 1991: McGaugh Hall, University of California, IrvineUniversity of California, Irvine 1992: Two California Plaza, Los Angeles, CaliforniaTwo California PlazaLos AngelesCalifornia 1997: Walter C. Koerner Library, University of British Columbia, VancouverWalter C. Koerner LibraryUniversity of British ColumbiaVancouver 2001: Waterfall Building, Vancouver, British ColumbiaVancouverBritish Columbia 2009: new Portland Hotel, VancouverVancouver 2009: Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington, USAMuseum of GlassTacomaWashington 2009: RCMP Heritage Centre, Regina, SaskatchewanRCMP Heritage CentreReginaSaskatchewan 2009: Canada House, Vancouver, British ColumbiaCanada HouseVancouverBritish Columbia 2016: Trump International Hotel and Tower Vancouver, Vancouver, British ColumbiaTrump International Hotel and Tower Vancouver British Columbia 1955: Killam-Massey House, West Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaWest VancouverBritish ColumbiaCanada 1958: Filberg Residence, Comox, British Columbia, CanadaComoxBritish ColumbiaCanada 1963: Graham House, West Vancouver, British ColumbiaWest VancouverBritish Columbia 1965: MacMillan Bloedel Building, Vancouver, BCMacMillan Bloedel BuildingVancouver 1965: Smith Residence, West Vancouver, British ColumbiaWest VancouverBritish Columbia 1965 onward in stages: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BCSimon Fraser UniversityBurnaby 1970: Government of Canada pavilion, Expo 70, Osaka, won top architectural award Aug 17, 1970.Expo 70Osaka 1970: Ross Street Sikh Temple, Khalsa Diwan Society, VancouverKhalsa Diwan Society, Vancouver 1971: University Hall, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AlbertaUniversity of Lethbridge Alberta 1973: Champlain Heights Elementary School, Vancouver, BC 1976: Haida longhouse-inspired Museum of Anthropology at UBC, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British ColumbiaMuseum of Anthropology at UBCUniversity of British ColumbiaVancouverBritish Columbia 1978: Eglinton West Subway Station, Toronto, Ontario - with Clifford & LawrieEglinton West Subway StationTorontoOntario 1978: Yorkdale Subway Station, Toronto, OntarioYorkdale Subway StationTorontoOntario 1978: Evergreen Building, Vancouver, British ColumbiaBritish Columbia in stages: Robson Square, Provincial Law Courts, and Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British ColumbiaRobson SquareProvincial Law CourtsVancouver Art GalleryVancouverBritish Columbia 1979: Bank of Canada Building addition, Ottawa, Ontario (with Marani Rounthwaite & Dick)Bank of Canada BuildingOttawa 1982: Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto, OntarioRoy Thomson HallTorontoOntario 1983: Napp Laboratories, Cambridge, EnglandCambridge 1984: King's Landing, Toronto, OntarioKing's LandingTorontoOntario LOG-01ms/Television/Impressions/ID/ / LOG-05 BIBLIOGRAGHIES Canadian Architectural Archives. 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