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On returning to
Vancouver in 1953, he slowly began a practice based upon individual
houses specially designed to be in harmony with their sites.
Sensitivity to landscape developed since childhood, confirmed by his
observation of ancient classical monuments, has been fundamental in
his approach to design from the start. Each undertaking is a unique
opportunity not through a desire to be different but through the
conviction that only circumstances could dictate form. While
building in context describes his objective, complete site
determinism seems a better term to describe the difference in his
concept of Simon Fraser University and the University of Lethbridge
- not a decade apart and built of the same
materials. |