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UBC Arts Student Centre, 2023

UBC Arts Student Centre, 2023

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It was another wonderful week of events at this ye

It was another wonderful week of events at this year’s 3rd annual West Coast Modern Week, organized by the @westvancouverartmuseum, celebrating the design movement that has defined modernism on Canada’s west coast for the better part of a century. The League was thrilled to again be a partner in this year’s celebrations, presenting SITE | LIGHT | CADENCE | SPACE: ARTHUR ERICKSON REVISITED to a full house at @polygongallery.

Thank you to everyone who joined us in this collective celebration, and to @westvancouverartmuseum for their incredible efforts.

SEE YOU AT NEXT SUMMER’S FESTIVAL!
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Scenes from SITE | LIGHT | CADENCE | SPACE: ARTHUR

Scenes from SITE | LIGHT | CADENCE | SPACE: ARTHUR ERICKSON REVISITED, the League's celebration of Arthur Erickson’s centenary through the lens of Daina Augaitis, Clinton Cuddington, Geoffrey Erickson, and Nick Milkovich.

Many thanks to all of you who joined us on July 10th at The Polygon Gallery, and a very special thank you to our special guests Daina, Clinton, Geoffrey and Nick for sharing their incredible work and experiences in carrying forward some of Arthur’s most iconic buildings.

The West Coast Modern League gratefully acknowledges the partnership of @westvancouverartmuseum and @polygongallery and the generous support of @euoistudio.

[Images] Martin Knowles @mkphotomedia

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We are saddened to share news of the passing of ar

We are saddened to share news of the passing of architect Arthur Müdry, who died on June 25th at the age of 92. Arthur was amongst a cohort of early West Coast Modernists whose creative voice contributed uniquely to the experimental culture of our regional mid-century modern ethos. His body of work, characterised by a deep respect for the natural world, which he considered sacrosanct, was set apart by an early interest in aeronautical engineering that undoubtedly influenced his aptitude for geometric and structural exploration. Our built environment is better off for his contributions and will continue to serve as inspiration to future generations. The West Coast Modern League offers our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends, and those who mourn in recognition of his unique and extraordinary legacy of West Coast Modern architecture.

Link in bio for the League's full statement.

[Images] @mkphotomedia | The League's 'Masters of West Coast Modernism" event, September 12, 2017.

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Revisiting the architectural models of the 2018 ‘Cabin Fever’ exhibition at @vanartgallery. See if you can spot our local representation.

Models by @goodweather_vancouver
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TODAY, an extraordinary and ongoing legacy of west

TODAY, an extraordinary and ongoing legacy of west coast domestic modernism is on full view for the 18th annual WEST COAST MODERN HOME TOUR, organized by @westvancouverartmuseum.

Prepare yourself for some truly remarkable architecture.

WE WILL SEE YOU THERE!

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TONIGHT, the League, with @westvancouverartmuseum

TONIGHT, the League, with @westvancouverartmuseum and @polygongallery, celebrates the centenary and the built legacy of Canada's pre-eminent architect, Arthur Erickson, through the lens of local designers who have revisited his work. We are so honoured to be joined by our guests Daina Augaitis, Clinton Cuddington, Geoffrey Erickson, and Nick Milkovich, each of whom will share the work they have been undertaking to shepherd these iconic structures into the future, working to safeguard their physical longevity and continued inspiration for future generations.

SITE | LIGHT | CADENCE | SPACE:
ARTHUR ERICKSON REVISITED

TONIGHT | 7:00–9:00pm
The Polygon Gallery | North Vancouver
Reception at 7:00pm | Presentation at 7:45pm

TICKETS REQUIRED
None sold at the door

Generously supported by @euoistudio

Part of West Coast Modern Week 2024, organized by the West Vancouver Art Museum.
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Arthur Erickson’s first principles to understand

Arthur Erickson’s first principles to understanding his architecture.

4: SPACE – “Architects go on about space as if it were the only thing that mattered. Other things matter of course, but the arrangement and design of spaces is for us the supreme aesthetic adventure. Although meeting the purpose of a building is our major task, making the spaces enhance the purpose is our peculiar delight.” [1]

The Filberg House was designed by Arthur Erickson in 1958 and completed in 1959. It was originally commissioned by Robert M. Filberg with the intention of being a home and an international cultural retreat. It was one of Erickson’s earlier and larger residential works, and his most significant and widely published commission, at the time. It has been hailed “the most fabulous house in Canada,” an accolade awarded to it in the 1961 issue of Canadian Homes. Situated high atop a seaside bluff surrounded by forest and meadow, glacial peaks, and wondrous southern vistas over the Strait of Georgia, the work is considered to be among the most perfect modernist marriages between constructed landscape, architecture, and its surroundings in BC.

“The strong landscape of the West Coast has ingrained its poetry into my sensibility and for better or worse conditioned my way of seeing. There was never a site, even the most unrewarding, which didn’t offer up some hidden pleasures to be enjoyed. Thus the passage through the spaces of a house for me is an adventure in the discovery of its site.” [1]
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Filberg House, 1959
Comox, BC
Designed by Arthur Erickson

LINK IN BIO for Arthur Erickson: 100 Years

[1] Erickson, A. (1975). The Architecture of Arthur Erickson. Tundra Books.
[Images] Steve Gairns
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TOMORROW marks the start of the 3rd annual WEST CO

TOMORROW marks the start of the 3rd annual WEST COAST MODERN WEEK, a new summer tradition on the North Shore celebrating the legacy and continuation of West Coast Modernism, an ethos that has defined modern architecture and design on Canada's west coast for the better part of a century. A week of lectures, tours, exhibitions, and socials awaits you. Tickets remain for some events. Get your tickets today and we will see you soon!

WEST COAST MODERN WEEK 2024
2024 July 9–14

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[Images] @mkphotomedia
Scenes from West Coast Modern Week 2023
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Arthur Erickson’s first principles to understand

Arthur Erickson’s first principles to understanding his architecture.

3: CADENCE – “We all respond to rhythm. It pervades all things and is at the root of architecture. It gives scale or measure, and provides the right tempo to a building – stately, graceful, quick, ponderous, gentle, slow. As in music, it arises out of the structure. To support a structure is easy, but to support it so that the structure is in consonance, heightening the intention of the design, is much more difficult.” [1]

In 1963, Arthur Erickson and Geoffrey Massey won the competition to design a new university on the top of Burnaby Mountain. Veering from the typical siloed structure of a university, the proposal for Simon Fraser University was their new interpretation that expressed the freedom of knowledge and the cross-fertilization of ideas. With the master plan laid out and the overall design and construction supervised by Erickson/Massey, the four runners-up in the competition joined in designing the library, academic quadrangle, science block, gymnasium, and theatre. In quite an astonishing timeline, SFU opened its doors to students in 1965.
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Simon Fraser University, 1965
Burnaby, BC
Designed by Arthur Erickson & Geoffrey Massey
(Erickson/Massey Architects) with others.

LINK IN BIO for Arthur Erickson: 100 Years

[1] Erickson, A. (1975). The Architecture of Arthur Erickson. Tundra Books.
[Image 1] Luc diPietro
[Image 2] Steve Gairns
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Next week, the League marks the centenary of Canad

Next week, the League marks the centenary of Canada’s pre-eminent architect Arthur Erickson through the lens of Daina Augaitis, Clinton Cuddington, Geoffrey Erickson, and Nick Milkovich. They will speak about their work in shepherding forward some of Arthur Erickson’s most iconic structures, safeguarding their physical longevity and continued inspiration for future generations.

We could not do this without the support of our community, and so we would like to take this opportunity to thank our partners West Vancouver Art Museum and The Polygon Gallery, and our generous sponsor euoi studio | architecture + design.

Daina Augaitis | Former Chief Curator/Associate Director @vanartgallery
Clinton Cuddington | Co-Principal @measuredarchitecture | Director @arthurericksonfoundation
Geoffrey Erickson | Partner, Studio Erickson | Director @arthurericksonfoundation
Nick Milkovich | Principal @milkovicharch

SITE | LIGHT | CADENCE | SPACE:
ARTHUR ERICKSON REVISITED

WED • JULY 10 • 2024 | 7:00–9:00pm
The Polygon Gallery | North Vancouver
Reception at 7:00pm | Presentation at 7:45pm

SOLD OUT

Part of West Coast Modern Week 2024, organized by the West Vancouver Art Museum.

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Nestled into the steep slopes of the Coastal Mount

Nestled into the steep slopes of the Coastal Mountains overlooking Howe Sound, Montiverdi Estates was designed between 1979-82 by Arthur Erickson with Eva Matsuzaki and Cornelia Hahn Oberlander. In a mature forest of dense tree cover and underbrush, each of the 20 homes was placed to preserve and celebrate the existing flora. Increasing in verticality as they ascend the hillside, each structure becomes set upon stilts to allow the mature trees and forest floor to flourish amongst the buildings.
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Montiverdi Estates, 1979-82
West Vancouver, BC
Designed by Arthur Erickson with Eva Matsuzaki
Landscape Designed by Cornelia Hahn Oberlander

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Quiet and comfortable has since become a bold stat

Quiet and comfortable has since become a bold statement amongst its industrial park neighbours. A light-filled, human-scaled structure, constructed of glass and heavy timber, the building is a succinct commercial translation of the free-standing pavilion concepts explored in Arthur Erickson’s residential body of work. Home Lumber (Jawl Industries Offices), completed in 1972, was designed as a minimal and refined composition of forms and materials. Open to the sky through a pyramidal skylight, with frameless glass opening to views of the surrounding low-lying shrubbery, the enclosure is visually reduced to an elegant post-and-beam structure shielded by an expansive, cantilevered roof, and sited upon an elevated terrazzo podium. A spatial and material experience akin to being seated beneath a tree canopy.⁠
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Home Lumber (Jawl Industries Offices), 1972⁠
Victoria, BC⁠
Designed by Arthur Erickson ⁠
Project Architect Nick Milkovich⁠
(Erickson/Massey Architects)⁠
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Arthur Erickson’s first principles to understand

Arthur Erickson’s first principles to understanding his architecture.

2: LIGHT – “Light has been a consuming preoccupation with me, because of its elusive mystery which gives life to architecture by its changing volumetric effects and subtle intimations of mood. Depending upon where and how the light enters a space you can be made to feel, for example, oppressed, as at the bottom of a well or exhilarated, as at the top of a hill… There is no end to the possibilities of light – for it is the source of magic in architecture.” [1]

Designed in 1979 and completed in 1983, the Hugo Eppich House is one of Arthur Erickson’s most complete works, inside and out. The second home designed for the Eppich brothers, the first constructed of concrete for Helmut Eppich, Eppich House II is a residential marvel in steel and glass.

“The hillside exposure is not all view; to either side there are houses which are ordinary and close. The L-shape could be angled to restrict the outlook but in order to admit light, the ends needed to be of glass. The solution was a wall of glass block that follows the curve of the custom-made steel I-beam for each level; opaque for privacy and colourless for a natural light.” [2]
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Hugo Eppich House, 1983
West Vancouver, BC
Designed by Arthur Erickson
Interiors with Francisco Kripacz
Studio by Nick Milkovich
Landscape with Cornelia Hahn Oberlander

LINK IN BIO for Arthur Erickson: 100 Years

[1] Erickson, A. (1975). The Architecture of Arthur Erickson. Tundra Books.
[2] Erickson, A. (1988). The Architecture of Arthur Erickson. Harper & Row.
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North America’s West Coast created its own uniqu

North America’s West Coast created its own unique Modern architecture in the twentieth century. From San Diego to Vancouver the region’s distinctive natural conditions, industries, and cultures inspired a spirit of experimentation that attracted free thinking architects eager to try new ideas far from the influence of the eastern establishment. The results varied from city to city, but together they became a laboratory for innovation that shaped Modernism globally.

On July 11th, join @westvancouverartmuseum with @kaymeekartscentre for “From City to City Up the Coast,” with architect and historian Alan Hess.

Author of 21 books on Modern architecture and urbanism in the twentieth century; Alan’s subjects include John Lautner, Oscar Niemeyer, Frank Lloyd Wright, as well as the Ranch House, Las Vegas, and Palm Springs. He is a Commissioner on the California State Historical Resources Commission, and serves on the boards of Preserve Orange County, Palm Springs Modernism Week, and DesignOnScreen.

Alan has helped to restore and landmark buildings from the Modern era, including CBS Television City, Bullock’s Pasadena, Norm’s La Cienega Coffee Shop, and the oldest remaining McDonald’s stand. Awards for his work conserving Modern architecture include the Honor Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Docomomo/US's Award of Excellence, and the President’s Award from the Los Angeles Conservancy. His next book “The Palm Springs School 1930-1975” will be published next year by Rizzoli International.

Don't miss out! Get your tickets today.

2024 JULY 11 | 7:00-9:00pm
Kay Meek Arts Centre, Grosvenor Theatre
Part of West Coast Modern Week

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A little-known Arthur Erickson design, thought to

A little-known Arthur Erickson design, thought to have been lost to time, has been found! Nestled among the aspen parkland of Alberta, the Dyde House is a hidden masterpiece by one of Canada’s most celebrated architects. Arthur Erickson’s Dyde House is a one-hour documentary telling the story of an undiscovered piece of history and the architects fighting for its future.

See the film for yourself! On July 12th, join @westvancouverartmuseum at @kaymeekartscentre for a screening of the documentary plus a discussion with Max Amerongen (Producer @andstoneyyc), Trevor Boddy, and Dr. Lee Foote.

Don't miss out! Get your tickets today.

2024 JULY 12 | 7:00-9:00pm
Kay Meek Arts Centre, Grosvenor Theatre
Part of West Coast Modern Week

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[Video] Arthur Erickson’s Dyde House (2023) Trailer. Directed by Colin Waugh. Produced by Sticks & Stones.
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Call it Arthur Erickson Place, MacMillan Bloedel B

Call it Arthur Erickson Place, MacMillan Bloedel Building, or the Waffle Building. You can call it whatever you’d like so long as you call it beautiful! Designed by Arthur Erickson with Geoffrey Massey, and completed in 1968, MacMillan Bloedel, as it was originally named, remains to this day one of the most elegant and bold office buildings on the Vancouver skyline.

Uninterested in the usual ethereal glass curtain wall office building, MacMillan Bloedel is instead characterized by Arthur’s desire for a building exuding stability and permanence. Solid, rough concrete bearing walls, punctuated by glass openings, taper from 10 foot thick at the ground to 1 foot thick when it touches the sky.“ The fact that the building was rather rugged in appearance and that it tapered like a great tree was quite incidental, but nevertheless conformed to the image that MacMillan Bloedel wanted to project. For me, it was my “Doric” building, uncompromising in its simplicity.” [1]
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MacMillan Bloedel Building (Arthur Erickson Place), 1968⁠
Vancouver, BC⁠
Designed by Arthur Erickson⁠ with Geoffrey Massey
(Erickson/Massey Architects)

LINK IN BIO for Arthur Erickson: 100 Years

[1] Erickson, A. (1975). The Architecture of Arthur Erickson. Tundra Books.
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At the same time as Arthur Erickson was developing

At the same time as Arthur Erickson was developing the designs for Simon Fraser University with Geoffrey Massey, Arthur's friends, Dr. William and Ruth Baldwin, commissioned him to create a home on the shores of Deer Lake. Conceived as a floating pavilion on the water's edge, Arthur drew inspiration, "in part, by the palaces and house boats of Dal Lake in Kashmir, and the famed nearby Mughal Gardens. Although Erickson never visited Dal Lake, he travelled extensively throughout India, and specifically mentions the Kashmir reference in relation to this house."[1] What resulted was a two-storey post-and-beam structure, perched on a steep slope, constructed with an exquisite transparency inviting views out to the surrounding lake. ⁠
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Baldwin House, 1965⁠
Burnaby, BC⁠
Designed by Arthur Erickson⁠

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[1] Dr. William & Ruth Baldwin House, Burnaby Heritage.⁠
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Arthur Erickson’s first principles to understand

Arthur Erickson’s first principles to understanding his architecture.

1: SITE – “Site is much more than the configuration of the lot where you build. Site is to me a basic generator of form because the way the building responds to its environment determines what the building uniquely is… To me, architecture means unifying the duality of site and building – which implies that the building cannot be removed from its setting and studied as a separate entity. It is the dialogue between building and setting that is the essence of architecture.” [1]

Designed in 1963 with Geoffrey Massey for David Graham, the Graham House stood as an icon of domestic modernism on the west coast until its untimely nighttime demise in 2007.

The site was described by Arthur as an impossible opportunity. “A rock scree dropping sixty feet from an overhanging cliff to a ledge over the sea was an impossible site for a house. First of all, as my client perceived, how would one get down to it? The only solution that I could see was a multi-storey house set against the cliff like a ladder. Its pleasure would be in the discoveries of the descent itself.” [1]
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Graham House, 1962
West Vancouver, BC
Designed by Arthur Erickson with Geoffrey Massey
Demolished, 2007

LINK IN BIO for Arthur Erickson: 100 Years

[1] Erickson, A. (1975). The Architecture of Arthur Erickson. Tundra Books.
[Images 1, 2, 5] Selywn Pullan. Collection of West Vancouver Art Museum.
[Images 3, 4] John Fulker. Collection of West Vancouver Art Museum.
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While working at the venerable firm Thompson, Berw

While working at the venerable firm Thompson, Berwick & Pratt, Ron Thom was commissioned to design a home on the mountain hillside of West Vancouver. A new residence for Mr. and Mrs. Clay Anderson, the design took clear inspiration from American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, as did much of Ron's work. The design is characterized by simple forms, flat roofs with large overhanging eaves, ribbon windows, and a restrained palette primarily of cedar inside and out. The result is a tranquil space to call home that is sensitively situated in its landscape.

The home is recognized as a Primary Building of architectural significance and listed on the West Vancouver Community Heritage Register.

Anderson House is currently on the market in search of new residents who will steward and care for this significant Ron Thom design.
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Anderson House, 1956
West Vancouver, BC
Designed by Ron Thom (Thompson, Berwick & Pratt)

Find it Online: MLS #R2896569

Link in bio for MODERN PLACES, the League's ongoing survey of modern west coast buildings & projects
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🚨 THREATENED | The Friends of Centennial Square

🚨 THREATENED | The Friends of Centennial Square are leading efforts in Victoria to save a modern cultural icon in the heart of the city. Centennial Fountain was constructed as part of a larger effort to revitalize this civic space in commemoration of Victoria's centenary celebrations in the early 1960s. The Fountain was a gift from the adjoining communities of Oak Bay, Saanich, and Esquimalt.

Today, the city is revisiting the design of Centennial Square with an eye towards alteration and/or removal of the fountain. Viewed as valuable to the popular culture of the city and to the context of the square, concerned citizens in the design, heritage, and broader communities are advocating for its retention and revitalization.

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Centennial Foundation, 1965
Victoria, BC
Designed by Jack C.S. Wilkinson
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