Notice Board

Architecture & Design NOW series is pleased to present a special lecture, Why Arthur Erickson Matters by architecture critic and historian Trevor Boddy as well as a film screening of Arthur Erickson’s Dyde House. This lecture is part of the Arthur Erickson Centennial Lecture Series.

Architecture & Design NOW series
March 31 | 6 PM | Room L1060
Lecture: Why Arthur Erickson Matters by Trevor Boddy
Films: Arthur Erickson’s Dyde House + Eppich House II Short Film
(Colin Waugh / Canada / 2023)
Free admission, all are welcome to attend

The program starts with a featured lecture by Trevor Boddy on the ideas and designs of Canada’s most globally prominent and influential architect, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of his birth. With works like University of Lethbridge and Simon Fraser University, Robson Square, the UBC Museum of Anthropology, Roy Thomson Hall Toronto, plus Cambridge’s Hillborn House and dozens of other sublime residences, Arthur Erickson has no rival as our most lauded architect of the 20th century, being the first Canadian to receive the AIA Gold Medal.

Vancouver architecture critic + curator Trevor Boddy analyzes these works and others for their generative ideas: a Japanese-inflected integration of garden and house design; a reliance on cadence and compression as devices for choreographing spaces; a critical advocacy for dense and diverse cities; the recurring motif of the ‘flying beam;’ and most of all, the notion of a new architecture approaching the condition of “the constructed landscape.”

The night is capped off with a screening of Arthur Erickson's Dyde House directed by Colin Waugh. 
In an aspen forest in rural Alberta, a hidden masterpiece by one of Canada’s most celebrated architects is found. Arthur Erickson’s Dyde House tells the story of an undiscovered piece of history and the architects fighting for its future.

Image of Arthur Erickson’s Dyde House, courtesy of Arthur Erickson Foundation and Trevor Boddy.