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Erickson did
well in the McGill course which at the time combined rigorous
training in structural and related matters and considerable freedom
in the arts. Two of his student projects survive in the collection:
an office building in an early Miesian manner and an Arts Centre. He
was literate, graphically able and won several prizes during his
studies. He graduated with honours and obtained the coveted Hugh
McLennan Travelling Scholarship. "And so after graduation I
embarked on a two-and-a-half year odyssey following the development
of Western architecture from its beginning in sequence through the
Middle-East, Greece, Italy, Florence, France and Spain, then finally
to England and
Scandinavia." |