Bo Helliwell and Kim Smith’s eco-architectural practice dates back to the 1970s on Hornby Island. Quoting the late ex-Architectural Review editor, Peter Davey, from the fly-leaf of Blue Sky Architecture’s 1999 monograph ‘House Design, Helliwell + Smith, Blue Sky Architecture’: “Helliwell + Smith are the interiors and interpreters of the Organic tradition of Modernism”.
Then in their 2013 monograph ‘Blue Sky Living’, editor Trevor Roddy eulogises: “Like a woodwind solo drifting through a mountain valley, these houses play a continuous melody marked by theme and variation in cedar, stone and timber beam.”The talk describes their ecological architectural approach via examples of their work (mainly domestic) from early days in Hornby Island to more recent work from their Vancouver office.
This talk describes their ecological architectural approach.
MAY 20 • 2026 | 9:30AM–11:00AM PDT
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