ARTHUR ERICKSON'S HOMECOMING

A FILM FESTIVAL, EXHIBITIONS, BUILDING TOURS, A LECTURE SERIES, AND THE REOPENING OF THE RESTORED MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY MARK THE CENTENARY OF ERICKSON'S BIRTH. A packed house at the Vancouver International Film Festival watched Richard Gere play a very Arthur-like architect in the 1994 film In...

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Published inThe Canadian Architect Vol. 69; no. 6; pp. 42 - 46
Main Author Ditmars, Hadani
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Toronto IQ Business Media 01.09.2024
Subjects
Anthropology
Architects
Architecture
Birthdays
Conspiracy
Earthquakes
Interdisciplinary aspects
Motion picture festivals
Museums
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Summary:A FILM FESTIVAL, EXHIBITIONS, BUILDING TOURS, A LECTURE SERIES, AND THE REOPENING OF THE RESTORED MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY MARK THE CENTENARY OF ERICKSON'S BIRTH. A packed house at the Vancouver International Film Festival watched Richard Gere play a very Arthur-like architect in the 1994 film Intersection, gazing at a model of the Museum of Anthropology with Sharon Stone. The day before, the actual Museum of Anthropology had reopened: In 2002's Concrete Poetry, a septuagenarian Erickson and a younger version of myself walked up the Temple of Hatshepsut-inspired ramps at his Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, next to its shimmering slanted cone, inspired by local industry. The central mall, conceived as an interdisciplinary meeting space, was often the "I think with any work of art, once the persona is developed, it takes oven It may take a lot of wrestling to find out what it is-out there is that point when you recognize the persona, anc then your business after that is whittling away at everything that is contradictory to that character, and letting the character develop and grow and assert itself even stronger I think you often hear about the concept of simplicity, which is often misunderstood: that simplicity is not doing something that is 'plain'-it's only clearing away all the periphera, the things that are inconseguential to that central character and meaning, anc it's more clarity than simplicity.
ISSN:0008-2872
1923-3353