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Architects
Happy Birthday, Antoni Gaudí!
“Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.” Antoni Gaudí December 2007, I travelled to Barcelona to experience Antoni Gaudí. The Temple De La Sagrada Familia was breathtaking, even mesmerizing. Although Antoni Gaudí’s architectural designs were in the fashion of the Spanish variant of […]
MoreArthur Erickson’s Canada House – His Last Gift to Vancouver
Arthur Erickson died in 2009 but his creativity and brilliance lives on in his last and final legacy – Canada House in Olympic Village. A passionate advocate of cultural awareness, Arthur Erickson’s architectural designs have a fresh appeal and generous acceptance of the world in which we live. He believed in community and inspired a […]
MoreArt Nouveau: Ideas Inspire Innovation
“Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.” John Ruskin The Belgian journal L’Art Moderne, in the early 1880s, used the phrase Art Nouveau to describe a group of progressive Belgian artists working under the group name of […]
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