Ottawa Citizen

In our celebrity-obsessed culture, a handful of architects have achieved global brand recognition -- Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind and Zaha Hadid. They produce news-making "star-chitecture" and enjoy a status akin to fashion, music and film stars. But if Canadians know just one Canadian architect, it should be Arthur Erickson, who has produced some of this country's most enduring buildings during a career lasting more than 40 years. A Vancouver architect of great originality and subtlety, he comes from a time when the star system was not so rampant. Flash and expense are not what Erickson is about. He had what today might be called a regional sensibility; his buildings are profoundly informed by context, history and climate.