PHOTO ESSAY

Concrete Poet

The bold lines of architect Arthur Erickson

By Greg Buium
May 2006
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Photo by Ricardo L. Castro, 2005. Courtesy of the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Photo by Ricardo L. Castro, 2005. Courtesy of the Vancouver Art Gallery.
 

University of Lethbridge (1968)
Lethbridge, Alta.

“I think [Erickson] romanticized a very traditional view of how education is made, in this sort of Socratic way – that you walked around the colonnaded space, the quadrangle, and there’s an intellectual exchange possible at any minute,” Olsberg says of Erickson’s campus projects.

Grant Arnold, the coordinating curator of Critical Works, suggests that Erickson deliberately designed these spaces “to encourage accidental or unstructured encounters. There is no faculty, for example, that has its own building. So you have a sense of people moving through these spaces together.”
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