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	Arthur Erickson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Erickson has had a long admiration and respect for the Native American cultures, and for this reason he seemed an appropriate choice as architect of the Museum of Anthropology.
		Erickson is quoted by one source as saying the posts and beams recall the form of the frame of a tribal dwelling.
		The interior of the building is characterized by sharp, crisp angles and shapes, Arthur Erickson's architectural trademark, and the use of four materials: stone, metal, concrete and glass.
	www.phys.uregina.ca /sparro/huber/arch/erickson.html (1494 words)

	Hunterdon County Democrat Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Erickson was introduced to fashion photography in the late 1970s when, as assistant manager of the New York City Ballet, she produced the company's souvenir book.
		Erickson met Alchemy owners Cleo and Barry Sharplin, who were new in town themselves, when she walked into the store one day and introduced herself.
		Erickson declined to release all the names of the women in the show, saying she wanted to create a mystique about who's in it.
	www.lindaerickson.com /hcd_article.htm (962 words)

	Erickson, Arthur Charles
		Erickson, Arthur Charles, architect (b at Vancouver, BC 14 June 1924).
		Erickson studied at UBC and McGill and completed his architectural training in 1950.
		Erickson has also received numerous commissions from Middle Eastern countries, South America and the US, where he was architect for the Canadian embassy in Washington (opened May 1989).
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002637 (409 words)

	CBC: Life And Times
		In a career spanning 50 years, Arthur Erickson has built international landmarks such as the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC and transformed whole sections of cities such as Vancouver and Toronto.
		Erickson is a study in complexity and contradiction.
		Erickson’s social and professional circles include the upper echelons of the Canadian, and international corporate and artistic elites.
	www.cbc.ca /lifeandtimes/erickson.html (380 words)

	Dale Chihuly > Chihuly Bridge of Glass Opens > Great Panes
		Erickson is also known, perhaps unfairly, for sacrificing function to form, a shortcoming that has bubbled to a boil with the fuss over renovations to Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall, aimed at improving its long-maligned acoustics.
		Erickson and his designers were forced to squeeze the galleries, theatre, garden and hot shop between a parking garage at the building's base and the connection to the Chihuly Bridge at its roof.
		Arthur has told me that he thinks this is a much better building and museum now that we were all able to work together on the design.
	www.dianefarrisgallery.com /artist/chihuly/bridge/great_panes.html (1849 words)

	Arthur Charles Erickson
		A Vancouver, B.C. native, Erickson studied at the University of British Columbia and later at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.
		Prefacing this honor, Erickson received numerous awards and degrees, including gold medals from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 1984 and the French AcadŽmie d'Architecture in 1986.
		In June 2001, Erickson received the title of Honorary Fellow from the Royal Institute of British Architects and an honorary Masters Degree from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and School.
	www.arcspace.com /architects/Erickson/bio.htm (260 words)

	Arthur Charles Erickson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Erickson's outstanding projects outside Canada include the Canadian Chancery in Washington, D.C.; the California Plaza in Los Angeles; a housing project in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; the San Diego Convention Center; and the planning and grand design of the oil sector complex in Kuwait.
		Arthur Erickson, architect in charge of the design for the new Canadian Chancery in Washington, D.C., discusses the model plans of the embassy with Canadian Ambassador to the U.S., Alan Gotlieb, left, at a news conference, 1984.
		At the University of British Columbia in 1942, Arthur joined the UBC Army Corps, took a Japanese language course, was promoted to Captain in Canadian Intelligence and seconded to the British Army in India as a field broadcaster, a position that would have dropped him behind enemy lines in Malaya.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /heirloom_series/volume6/322-325.htm (747 words)

	McGill News -- A Fine Balance (Page 2)
		Erickson was seconded to the British Army and shipped off to Bombay where he and other Allied soldiers were sequestered with a group of Japanese men who were working with the British.
		Erickson went on to become a teacher himself at UBC after graduating from McGill, and it was there that he created his first major stir as an architect.
		Erickson is often regarded as a curmudgeon by city planners, real estate developers and competing architects, many of whom have felt the sting of his public putdowns.
	www.mcgill.ca /news/2003/summer/architecture/two (1352 words)

	News of Delaware County - News - 02/02/2005 - Arthur Erickson
		Erickson was responsible for putting oxygen into ball cylinders, where they were packed up and taken to airfields, then put into smaller containers.
		Erickson was outside of Foggia, Italy, near large airfields where B-17 and fighter planes landed.
		Erickson was stationed at an airbase, supervising German prisoners and packing things to send back to the states.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=1725&dept_id=132961&newsid=13875238&PAG=461&rfi=9 (1397 words)

	AIArchitect, May 10-16, 2002 - Medals and Medalists Adorn Convention's Final Theme Session
		He noted that Erickson, Graves, and Meier have become household names because their works are cultural events, not just architectural events.
		Erickson, often contrary to the others in his arguments, expressed his concern that the public does not care so much for high design, but is more interested in what is currently in style.
		Erickson, a Vancouver architect with the Canadian embassy in Washington to his credit, expressed his difficulty with the convention program, both for its logistical and aesthetic design.
	www.aia.org /aiarchitect/thisweek02/tw0510/0511saturdaysession.htm (956 words)

	Welcome to the Lone Star Flight Museum!
		Beryl Arthur Erickson was instrumental in the development of many of America's most significant aircraft, including those that defined the Cold War.
		While testing the aircraft on June 29, 1957, Erickson became one of a small group of pilots to exceed Mach 2, twice the speed of sound.
		By the time he retired in 1962, Beryl Erickson had logged over 25,000 hours testing military and civilian aircraft, many of which have provided the foundation for today's military bombers and fighters as well as commercial airlines.
	www.lsfm.org /Bios/beryl_erickson.html (374 words)

	Code One Magazine: Beryl Arthur Erickson, Test Pilot — October 1992
		Erickson notes that the airplane, an important part of Consolidated's early flying boat experience, was a corporate predecessor to the PBY Catalina, which he did fly.
		Erickson was born in Bottineau, near the Canadian border in North Dakota.
		Erickson returns to the B-58 model: "The final design of the B-58 was the culmination of 100,000 specific design studies.
	www.codeonemagazine.com /archives/1992/articles/oct_92/oct2a_92.html (5280 words)

	The Reporter -- Arthur Erickson: Concrete poet
		A giant in Canadian architecture, Erickson contributed to the rebirth of modernism in Canada and is known for his rare ability to handle large-scale contemporary architecture that's sensitive to its environment.
		Erickson also created some of the most prominent modern university architecture through his designs for the University of Lethbridge and Simon Fraser University campuses as well as the UBC Museum of Anthropology.
		When Erickson studied architecture at McGill, he viewed American Frank Lloyd Wright as a role model, an architect whose work, at the time, was neither taught nor well respected by the faculty.
	www.mcgill.ca /reporter/33/05/erickson (807 words)

	Erickson Jr., Arthur
		was born on December 6, 1937 in Latona township of Walsh county of North Dakota, the son of Arthur C. and Ingeborg (Sjoberg) Erickson.
		Arthur was currently working at Arctic Cat in Thief River Falls.
		He was a member of Victory Free Lutheran Church of Park River and served as a trustee on the Mountain Lutheran Church board for many years.
	www.trftimes.com /obits/erickson_jr_arthur.htm (200 words)

	Los Angeles Business Journal: Former execs rap Erickson improprieties - Erickson Associates' employees and former ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Erickson - designer of the largest real estate project in downtown Los Angeles, California Plaza and winner of several prestigious architectural honors - maintained last week in a phone call from Berlin that he had been kept totally in the dark about the financial condition of his L.A. company, Arthur Erickson Associates.
		She added, "I told Arthur, You can't deduct your car and house and food; that's tax fraud.' He said, Everybody does it.' And I told him, Yeah, but that's why (New York hotelier) Leona Helmsley (was convicted of tax evasion),'" Parker said.
		Erickson claimed that Gordon "stole more than $1 million" during the three years Gordon was retained as an outside consultant in charge of the restructuring and management of Erickson's L.A. company.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m5072/is_n27_v13/ai_11003023 (1437 words)

	The Greater Meriden Chamber of Commerce publishes a listing of member events and member happenings. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Arthur is a licensed funeral director at Beecher and Bennett Funeral Home, which has been owned by his family for three generations and was established in 1894.
		Arthur I. Erickson was recently elected treasurer of the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association.
		Erickson became a funeral director in 1985 after receiving degrees from the New England Institute of Mortuary Science in Boston and Quinnipiac College in Hamden.
	www.meridenchamber.com /news/member-news.asp?ID=58 (472 words)

	Los Angeles Business Journal: Famed architect vanishes and leaves unpaid creditors behind - Arthur Erickson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Erickson, in a phone interview from his offices in Vancouver, Canada, last week confirmed that he had been evicted from his L.A. offices.
		Erickson claimed he was unaware that his unpaid creditors had not been kept informed of his L.A. office closing.
		Erickson was cruising at stratospheric heights during the sky's-the-limit 1980s, branching out from his Vancouver roots by opening a Toronto office and then, in 1982, a Los Angeles office.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m5072/is_n25_v13/ai_11054692 (1153 words)

	Arthur Charles Erickson Biography / Biography of Arthur Charles Erickson Biography Biography
		Arthur Charles Erickson (born 1924), Canadian architect, became the most internationally noted figure in Canadian architectural history.
		Arthur Erickson's early education in art was inspired by the spectacular setting of the British Columbia landscape and by the intensely art-conscious social milieu into which he was born.
		His parents were of the generation of "pioneers" in the city of Vancouver (which was chartered in 1886 and experienced its first large demographic and building boom in 1912) who were determined to foster the arts in their community.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-arthur-charles-erickson/index.html (230 words)

	Moving Images -- The Life and Times of Arthur Erickson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Vancouver architect Arthur Erickson has built international landmarks like the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC and transformed whole sections of cities such as Vancouver and Toronto.
		The Life and Times of Arthur Erickson examines the life of this enigmatic artist and pays tribute to his achievements as a non-conformist and iconoclast.
		Fellow architects Bing Thom and Moshe Safdie as well as other colleagues and luminaries comment on the career and achievements of Erickson, who is one of a handful of living architects to receive the prestigious Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement from the American Institute of Architecture.
	www.movingimages.bc.ca /Catalogue/Art/arthurerickson.html (165 words)

	Arthur Erickson
		Arthur C. Erickson was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1924 and is considered one of Canada's greatest architects.
		The personal selection of Arthur Erickson as the architect for the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC by then-Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was controversial because he overruled the objections and choices of the embassy's design committee.
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	www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/a/ar/arthur_erickson.html (92 words)

	Arthur C. Erickson - Great Buildings Online
		Arthur Erickson was born in Vancouver, Canada in 1924.
		Considered one of Canada's greatest architects, Erickson studied at the University of British Columbia and McGill University, Montreal.
		Erickson/ Massey Associates was formed in 1963 after Erickson and Geoffrey Massey won a design competition.
	www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Arthur_C._Erickson.html (312 words)

	BCSC: Commission Imposes Trading Bans Against Kenneth Arthur Erickson Maurice John Calf in EVC Resources Matter
		Investors were also offered, but never received, gold bullion that was to come from two sources: from gold processed at a plant using the EVC method and "old gold" bullion purportedly plundered from countries occupied by Japanese soldiers and gold former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos had supposedly deposited in a New York bank.
		The panel banned Kenneth Arthur Erickson from trading, acting as a director or officer of any reporting issuer or engaging in investor relations activities for the rest of his life.
		While Calf cannot be faulted for losing his own money in EVC and Erickson’s schemes, the panel said, he was obliged to meet securities legislation requirements in dealing with other people’s money.
	www.bcsc.bc.ca /release.asp?id=889 (504 words)

	Erickson, Arthur C. -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Canadian architect Arthur C. Erickson's original and varied work included buildings at Simon Fraser University, in British Columbia (1963), and the University of Lethbridge, in Alberta (1971).
		In his early research on the measurement of radiation, he found that when X rays strike graphite they are scattered and their wavelengths are increased.
		The British journalist and author Arthur Ransome wrote children's adventure novels noted for their detailed and colorful accounts of the perception and imagination of children.
	0-www.britannica.com.library.unl.edu /ebi/article-9322592 (761 words)

	University Town
		“Global architect, Arthur Charles Erickson is a passionate advocate of cultural awareness, and a fervent explorer of human and natural environments.
		A Vancouver, B.C. native, Erickson studied at the University of British Columbia and later received his degree in architecture from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.
		Erickson is the Principal of Arthur Erickson Architectural Corporation in Vancouver.
	www.universitytown.ubc.ca /archcomp/jury.php (2266 words)

	Museum of Glass
		The American Institute of Architects has described Canadian architect Arthur Erickson as "a passionate advocate of cultural awareness and a fervent explorer of human and natural environments." Like many visionaries, Arthur Erickson is both a rebel and a dreamer whose life has been shaped by war, travel, and chance encounters with remarkable people.
		Erickson has clearly demonstrated that passion and fervor through his design of the Museum of Glass.
		Wright invited him to study with his architectural collective, but Erickson was persuaded to complete his degree by McGill's dean of architecture at that time, John Bland.
	www.museumofglass.org /s04_design_architect.jsp (1721 words)

	Arthur Erickson: Smith House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		So it's fitting that his house, designed by Arthur Erickson and Geoffrey Massey in 1964, be both in the forest and of the forest, yet still a work of art
		Erickson and Smith were friends with mutual interests: European high modern design, abstract expressionism, and the new regional identity being forged in the Pacific Northwest.
		Erickson arranged the building as a spiral of boxes around a courtyard, with each wing stepping up from the last.
	www.andrewblum.net /Erickson.htm (359 words)

	Clarke, Arthur C. -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The release in 1968 of the movie ‘2001: A Space Odyssey' gave international fame to Arthur C. Clarke, a science fiction writer whose reputation was already well established.
		Clarke, Arthur C. English writer who is notable for both his science fiction and his nonfiction.
		Arthur, J.C. American botanist who discovered basic facts about the parasitic fungi known as rusts.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9273695?tocId=9273695 (895 words)

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