Arthur Erickson: a Vancouverite, a traveller, an idealist, a modernist (mostly), a gay man, a partner, a charmer, a great teacher, an unreliable boss, an irresponsible businessman, a financial failure and an elder statesman. And also an architect—as the subtitle of Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life reminds us. David Stouck, a retired Simon Fraser English professor and…
Alex Bozikovic
Alex Bozikovic is an editor at The Globe and Mail and writes for the paper about architecture. He also writes the blog No Mean City and has contributed to magazines such as Azure, Dwell and Metropolis.
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The story begins with a treehouse. In 1941, Raymond Moriyama was interned along with his mother and two sisters in Slocan, British Columbia; his father was in a prisoner-of-war camp in Ontario, half a continent away. The 12-year-old Moriyama, injured in a kitchen accident, was further marginalized by his fellow internees, who mocked his scarred…