![]() “So, I felt why not develop an architecture that’s related to the land forms of the Americas and the traditions of the Americas? The Greeks developed their architecture around their landscape, or the Egyptians. “The Group of Seven created their own style and it grew out of the Canadian landscape, and the dramatic colours, forms, textures, etcetera,” Cardinal said in an interview with University of Calgary radio station CJSW earlier this month. Old design templates from Europe, he explains, seemed out of place here so he felt the need to create new ones. Our history is relegated to Fort Edmonton Park where we visit it once every few summers.Ĭardinal ( right, and his Stony Plain residence, above), whose sold out appearance is part of a series of presentations by a group called Media Art and Design Exposed (MADE), has told interviewers and audiences that he has rejected some elements of the past as part of his style. And how many Edmontonians know that the giant smokestack surrounded by empty fields along the northeast LRT line was once home to Canada Packers? Who knows that the neighbourhoods around it were called Packingtown, and that the city’s meat plants were what defined this city in the first half of the 20th Century before oil started squirting out of Leduc #1? Our celebration of the gold rush, Klondike Days, was re-branded as Capital EX. Most of us would flunk even a basic quiz on aboriginal history in Edmonton. ![]() ![]() So how will the Calgary-born, award-winning aboriginal designer be received when he speaks to a full house this Thursday, March 29 at the Art Gallery of Alberta about promoting indigenous design in this city – where, let’s be honest, we seem allergic to our own past? ![]() Posted on MaBy Rob Drinkwater Culture, Visual ArtsĪrchitect Douglas Cardinal has always sought to incorporate both history and natural surroundings into his designs, which range from the Telus World of Science here in Edmonton and the Museum of Civilization in Ottawa, to the Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. ![]()
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