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• Title:Arthur Erickson : an architect's life / David Stouck.
  
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• Author/Creator:Stouck, David, 1940-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:McDonald, Robert A. J., 1944-2019, donor.
  
• Published/Created:Madeira Park, BC : Douglas & McIntyre, ©2013.
  

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• Library of Congress Subjects:Erickson, Arthur, 1924-2009.
  Architects--Canada--Biography.
  Architecture--Canada--History--20th century.
  Modern movement (Architecture)--Canada--History.
  
• Description:ix, 460 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"Arthur Erickson, Canada's preeminent philosopher-architect, was renowned for his innovative approach to landscape, his genius for spatial composition and his epic vision of architecture for people. Erickson worked chiefly in concrete, which he called "the marble of our times," and wherever they appear, his buildings move the spirit with their poetic freshness and their mission to inspire. Erickson was also a controversial figure, more than once attracting the ire of his fellow architects, and leading a complicated personal life that resulted in a series of bankruptcies. In a fall from grace that recalls a Greek tragedy, Canada's great architect--a handsome, elegant man who lived like a millionaire and counted among his close friends Pierre Trudeau and Elizabeth Taylor--eventually became penniless. Arthur Erickson is both an intimate portrait of the man and a stirring account of how he made his buildings work."--From publisher.
  
• Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 432-435) and index
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781771000116 (cloth)
  1771000112 (cloth)
  9781771000123 (ebook)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I Portrait of the Architect as a Young Man
  1. Child
  2. Prodigy
  3. Soldier
  4. Student
  5. Traveller
  6. Europe
  7. Apprentice
  8. Filberg House
  pt. II Weight of Heaven
  9. Japan
  10. Public Lecturer
  11. Simon Fraser University
  12. Francisco Kripacz
  13. Huckster
  14. University of Lethbridge
  pt. III Master Builder
  15. Robson Square
  16. Museum of Anthropology, UBC
  17. Canadian Chancery
  pt. IV Celebrity
  18. Middle East
  19. Bankrupt
  20. Local Celebrity.