A “masterwork.” That’s what author Greg Bellerby calls this house by Arthur Erickson in West Vancouver, a hillside aerie in white steel and glass block. He’s right, and this coffee-table book,is beautifully presented and clearly and thoroughly written. Most important, it makes a strong argument for this house by one of Canada’s great architects.
Erickson, who died in 2009 at the age of 84, was the best-known, and arguably the best, Canadian architect of the 20th century. He did much of his most memorable work in private houses, particularly for clients who allowed him the budget and freedom to create.He found those in the Eppich brothers: Helmut and Hugo, who emigrated from what is now Slovenia to Germany and then to Canada in the early 1950s.
This is the kind of thing every architect dreams of hearing. Erickson had already advanced his art with a series of house commissions over the previous decade, particularly his 1965 house for Gordon and Marion Smith, which reinterprets the wood post-and-beam structure of Japanese temples into a modern glass house. The essence of what he was as an architect was created in the houses, Bellerby argues.
It’s easy enough to connect this gesture to some of Erickson’s best-known public work, as Bellerby does: the Law Courts complex at Robson Square in downtown Vancouver, for instance, an architectural project closely integrated to its site, and defined by a literal waterfall. Or the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, in which Erickson took the post-and-beam structure typical of Haida houses and imitated it in massive, expressive concrete.
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