Project
AP022.S1.1981.PR21
Description:
File documents a design competition entry by Arthur Erickson Architects for the Beverly Hills Civic Center, Los Angeles, California. File contains slides.
1981-1982
Beverly Hills Civic Center Design Competition
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AP022.S1.1981.PR21
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File documents a design competition entry by Arthur Erickson Architects for the Beverly Hills Civic Center, Los Angeles, California. File contains slides.
Project
1981-1982
Series
Projects administration
AP022.S2
Description:
Series is comprised of records relating to built and proposed projects, offer of services files to potential clients, and projects documentation from the offices of Erickson / Massey Architects (1963-1972) and Arthur Erickson Architects (1972-1991), Toronto, Ontario, and Vancouver, British Columbia. It also includes documentation and working documents for projects on which Arthur Erickson worked as a design consultant. Documents include specifications, building programs and other long term documentation for external audits refered as "permanent files". It also contains offer of services and related proposals and correspondance.Series also contains general project documentation for both built and un-built projects designed at the offices of Erickson/Massey Architects, Vancouver and Arthur Erickson Architects, Vancouver, Los Angeles and Toronto. Project binders were filed under general headings including: Education, Commercial, Housing, Medical, Planning, Transit and Theatre and Performing Arts. Also included in this series are slides of projects not documented under the project series in series AP022.S1. The majority of the material is photographic, some records also include project information sheets, newspaper clippings, and a few reports. A large portion of the documentation binders were assembled on 1 October 1990 at the offices of Arthur Erickson Architects. The material was used for either external presentation or internal documentation purposes.
1953-2005
Projects administration
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AP022.S2
Description:
Series is comprised of records relating to built and proposed projects, offer of services files to potential clients, and projects documentation from the offices of Erickson / Massey Architects (1963-1972) and Arthur Erickson Architects (1972-1991), Toronto, Ontario, and Vancouver, British Columbia. It also includes documentation and working documents for projects on which Arthur Erickson worked as a design consultant. Documents include specifications, building programs and other long term documentation for external audits refered as "permanent files". It also contains offer of services and related proposals and correspondance.Series also contains general project documentation for both built and un-built projects designed at the offices of Erickson/Massey Architects, Vancouver and Arthur Erickson Architects, Vancouver, Los Angeles and Toronto. Project binders were filed under general headings including: Education, Commercial, Housing, Medical, Planning, Transit and Theatre and Performing Arts. Also included in this series are slides of projects not documented under the project series in series AP022.S1. The majority of the material is photographic, some records also include project information sheets, newspaper clippings, and a few reports. A large portion of the documentation binders were assembled on 1 October 1990 at the offices of Arthur Erickson Architects. The material was used for either external presentation or internal documentation purposes.
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1953-2005
Series
AP022.S5
Description:
Series consists of personal documents created or acquired by Arthur Erickson between 1947-2009. The series documents Arthur Erickson's extensive travels, his relationships with close friends and family as well as his activities and interests outside of his architectural practice. Correspondence includes letters, postcards, and greeting cards from Erickson's family, close friends and acquaintances. Travel photographs and sound recordings reflect Erickson's world travels and interest in global architectural trends. Among these are photographs of Pierre Elliot and Margaret Trudeau and long-term partner Francisco Kripacz, Erickson's frequent travel companion. This series also contains newspaper clippings and other reference material (visual and textual) that Erickson collected for personal interest, photographs, drawings, as well as his personal sketches and early artwork. Official documents such as Erickson's birth certificate and other personal legal and financial documents unrelated to his architectural practice are also contained within the series.
circa 1947-2002
Correspondence, photographs, and personal papers
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AP022.S5
Description:
Series consists of personal documents created or acquired by Arthur Erickson between 1947-2009. The series documents Arthur Erickson's extensive travels, his relationships with close friends and family as well as his activities and interests outside of his architectural practice. Correspondence includes letters, postcards, and greeting cards from Erickson's family, close friends and acquaintances. Travel photographs and sound recordings reflect Erickson's world travels and interest in global architectural trends. Among these are photographs of Pierre Elliot and Margaret Trudeau and long-term partner Francisco Kripacz, Erickson's frequent travel companion. This series also contains newspaper clippings and other reference material (visual and textual) that Erickson collected for personal interest, photographs, drawings, as well as his personal sketches and early artwork. Official documents such as Erickson's birth certificate and other personal legal and financial documents unrelated to his architectural practice are also contained within the series.
Series
circa 1947-2002
Series
Exhibitions
AP022.S7
Description:
Series documents exhibitions about the work of Arthur Erickson. It contains for the exhition "Arthur Erickson - Selected Projects 1971-1985" held at the Cener for Inter-American Relations, New York, New York, from March 27 to June 6, 1985. The exhibition was organized by the Center, an affiliate of the Americas Society, and was curated by architect Barbara Shapiro, who worked in Erickson's office. The material consists of photographs of models presented in the exhibitions and the exhibition poster. The series also contains press release, exhibition description, project description, and articles related to the exhibition "Arthur Erickson: Critical Works" presented at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2006.
1985
Exhibitions
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AP022.S7
Description:
Series documents exhibitions about the work of Arthur Erickson. It contains for the exhition "Arthur Erickson - Selected Projects 1971-1985" held at the Cener for Inter-American Relations, New York, New York, from March 27 to June 6, 1985. The exhibition was organized by the Center, an affiliate of the Americas Society, and was curated by architect Barbara Shapiro, who worked in Erickson's office. The material consists of photographs of models presented in the exhibitions and the exhibition poster. The series also contains press release, exhibition description, project description, and articles related to the exhibition "Arthur Erickson: Critical Works" presented at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2006.
Series
1985
Series
Office administration
AP022.S3
Description:
Series consists of office administration records produced by Erickson / Massey Architects (Vancouver and Toronto, 1963-1972), and Arthur Erickson Architects (Vancouver, Tornoto, and Los Angleles, 1972-1991). The series documents the administration and activities of the Erickson / Massey and Arthur Erickson offices, their public relations and marketing activities, their collaborations with consultants or other firms or design companies, including Francisco Imported Furniture Limited. It contains primarly correspondance, including with suppliers and consultants, clippings, photographs, and promotional material on the firms and their projects, records on offices staff, payrolls and budgets. It also contains reference material and documentation used by the offices, such as press clippings, promotional material and photographs of other architectural firms and their projects, trades and suppliers' catalogues, laws and regulations for construction or urban planning.
1963-1997
Office administration
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AP022.S3
Description:
Series consists of office administration records produced by Erickson / Massey Architects (Vancouver and Toronto, 1963-1972), and Arthur Erickson Architects (Vancouver, Tornoto, and Los Angleles, 1972-1991). The series documents the administration and activities of the Erickson / Massey and Arthur Erickson offices, their public relations and marketing activities, their collaborations with consultants or other firms or design companies, including Francisco Imported Furniture Limited. It contains primarly correspondance, including with suppliers and consultants, clippings, photographs, and promotional material on the firms and their projects, records on offices staff, payrolls and budgets. It also contains reference material and documentation used by the offices, such as press clippings, promotional material and photographs of other architectural firms and their projects, trades and suppliers' catalogues, laws and regulations for construction or urban planning.
Series
1963-1997
Sub-series
AP022.S3.SS3
Description:
Sub-series documents public relations, marketing activities and collaborations of the offices of Erickson / Massey and Arthur Erickson Architects in Vancouver, British columbia, and Toronto, Ontario. The material was intended for media and press releases, publications, photographs and information requests, presentations, publicity and marketing brochures, and includes project descriptions, photographs and slides, magazine articles and clippings, publication drawings, galley proofs for books and a Life Magazine article on the Graham House, correspondence, and printing plates for a publicity brochure. Sub-series also documents Erickson / Massey and Arthur Erickson Architects collaboration with Francisco Imported Furniture Ltd the company of Francisco Leopoldo Kripacz (b. 8 April, 1942 - d. 3 August, 2000). Kripacz was born in Caracas, Venezuela, educated in Europe, the United States, and studied design in Vancouver and New York. He also went to the University of British Columbia for a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1964. He became a resident Canadian in 1961, and a Canadian citizen in 1973. In 1964 he founded an interior design and furniture import business in Vancouver with Arthur Erickson, and opened a showroom in Montreal (550 Sherbrooke St. West), in 1965. Kripacz designed the exhibition unit in Habitat 67 (by architect Moshe Safdie) for the 1967 World Exposition in Montreal, and created interiors for a private clientel as well as for many of Arthur Erickson's buildings. The latter included the Helmut Eppich House and Erickson's own residence in Vancouver, the Hilborn Residence in Ontario, the Prime Minister's office and resdence in Ottawa, the UBC Faculty Club, the Macmillan Blodel Bulding, Vancouver, the Bank of Canada Headquarters in Ottawa, the Student Union Building at Queen's University, Kingston, the Provincial Law Courts in Robson Square, Vancouver, Roy Thomson Hall and the Tech Mining offices in Toronto, the Canadian Chancery in Washington, D.C., amongst others. Material related to Francisco Imported Furniture Ltd Sub-series also contains professional correspondence with Arthur Erickson Architect, financial documents of Francisco Imported Furniture Ltd, furniture design proposals, photographs and personal correspondance files of Francisco Kripacz.
1967-1988
Public relations, marketing and collaborations
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AP022.S3.SS3
Description:
Sub-series documents public relations, marketing activities and collaborations of the offices of Erickson / Massey and Arthur Erickson Architects in Vancouver, British columbia, and Toronto, Ontario. The material was intended for media and press releases, publications, photographs and information requests, presentations, publicity and marketing brochures, and includes project descriptions, photographs and slides, magazine articles and clippings, publication drawings, galley proofs for books and a Life Magazine article on the Graham House, correspondence, and printing plates for a publicity brochure. Sub-series also documents Erickson / Massey and Arthur Erickson Architects collaboration with Francisco Imported Furniture Ltd the company of Francisco Leopoldo Kripacz (b. 8 April, 1942 - d. 3 August, 2000). Kripacz was born in Caracas, Venezuela, educated in Europe, the United States, and studied design in Vancouver and New York. He also went to the University of British Columbia for a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1964. He became a resident Canadian in 1961, and a Canadian citizen in 1973. In 1964 he founded an interior design and furniture import business in Vancouver with Arthur Erickson, and opened a showroom in Montreal (550 Sherbrooke St. West), in 1965. Kripacz designed the exhibition unit in Habitat 67 (by architect Moshe Safdie) for the 1967 World Exposition in Montreal, and created interiors for a private clientel as well as for many of Arthur Erickson's buildings. The latter included the Helmut Eppich House and Erickson's own residence in Vancouver, the Hilborn Residence in Ontario, the Prime Minister's office and resdence in Ottawa, the UBC Faculty Club, the Macmillan Blodel Bulding, Vancouver, the Bank of Canada Headquarters in Ottawa, the Student Union Building at Queen's University, Kingston, the Provincial Law Courts in Robson Square, Vancouver, Roy Thomson Hall and the Tech Mining offices in Toronto, the Canadian Chancery in Washington, D.C., amongst others. Material related to Francisco Imported Furniture Ltd Sub-series also contains professional correspondence with Arthur Erickson Architect, financial documents of Francisco Imported Furniture Ltd, furniture design proposals, photographs and personal correspondance files of Francisco Kripacz.
sub-series
1967-1988
Project
Dyde House
AP022.S1.1960.PR01
Description:
File documents a built residence in Edmonton, Alberta. The Dyde house sits on fifty acres of land and was the first masonry residence built by Arthur Erickson. Henry Alexander Dyde was the client for the project. File contains photographic materials, textual records and sketches.
1960
Dyde House
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AP022.S1.1960.PR01
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File documents a built residence in Edmonton, Alberta. The Dyde house sits on fifty acres of land and was the first masonry residence built by Arthur Erickson. Henry Alexander Dyde was the client for the project. File contains photographic materials, textual records and sketches.
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1960
Project
L.A. Promo House
AP022.S1.1982.PR08
Description:
File documents interior and exterior (including a pool and terrace) renovations to a residence for Arthur Erickson and Francisco Kripacz, 800 Bel Air Road, Bel Air (Los Angeles), California. File contains textual records (includes drawings and photographs)
1982-1984
L.A. Promo House
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AP022.S1.1982.PR08
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File documents interior and exterior (including a pool and terrace) renovations to a residence for Arthur Erickson and Francisco Kripacz, 800 Bel Air Road, Bel Air (Los Angeles), California. File contains textual records (includes drawings and photographs)
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1982-1984
Project
Hamma Government Complex
AP022.S1.1984.PR09
Description:
File documents a winning competition entry for a 25-acre complex of government buildings, including a national assembly, palais des congres, library and hotel (not built by Arthur Erickson Architects), Algiers, Algeria. File contains presentation drawings.
1984
Hamma Government Complex
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AP022.S1.1984.PR09
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File documents a winning competition entry for a 25-acre complex of government buildings, including a national assembly, palais des congres, library and hotel (not built by Arthur Erickson Architects), Algiers, Algeria. File contains presentation drawings.
Project
1984
photographs
ARCH274029
Description:
Designed by Arthur Erickson Architects, Los Angeles California.
1985
Slides of site sections, plans and site maps for the De Anza Resort, San Diego
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ARCH274029
Description:
Designed by Arthur Erickson Architects, Los Angeles California.
photographs
1985