Events & Gatherings

Community Screening: Arthur Erickson’s Dyde House & Lecture with Trevor Boddy

Remai Modern is pleased to present a Community Screening of Arthur Erickson’s Dyde House along with a lecture titled Why Arthur Erickson Matters by architecture critic and historian Trevor Boddy.

Saturday, March 8, 1 PM
Lecture: Why Arthur Erickson Matters by Trevor Boddy
Films: Arthur Erickson’s Dyde House + Eppich House II Short Film
Director: Colin Waugh
Year: 2023
Runtime: 55 minutes & 15 minutes
Country: Canada
Rating: N/R

In an aspen forest in rural Alberta, a hidden masterpiece by one of Canada’s most celebrated architects is found. Arthur Erickson’s Dyde House tells the story of an undiscovered piece of history and the architects fighting for its future.

Why Arthur Erickson Matters

A feature lecture on the ideas and designs of Canada’s most globally prominent and influential architect, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of his birth. With works like Lethbridge and Simon Fraser Universities, Robson Square, the UBC Museum of Anthropology, Roy Thomson Hall Toronto, plus Cambridge’s Hillborn House and dozens of other sublime residences, Arthur Erickson has no rival as our most lauded architect of the 20th century, being the first Canadian to receive the AIA Gold Medal.

Vancouver architecture critic + curator Trevor Boddy analyzes these works and others for their generative ideas: a Japanese-inflected integration of garden and house design; a reliance on cadence and compression as devices for choreographing spaces; a critical advocacy for dense and diverse cities; the recurring motif of the ‘flying beam;’ and most of all, the notion of a new architecture approaching the condition of “the constructed landscape.”

This program will begin with Trevor Boddy’s lecture titled Why Arthur Erickson Matters followed by a screening of Arthur Erickson’s Dyde House directed by Colin Waugh.