Why Does Canada Have So Little Regard For Important Architecture?

Lisa Rochon decries the treatment of architect Arthur Erickson’s buildings in Canada. He “is the éminence grise of modernism in this country. He led a postwar movement of design that extends landscape through architecture, something Canada’s new generation of award-winning practitioners have absorbed into their own thinking. It’s easy to blame lack of money. Or zoning. Running through all of these moronic moves is a lack of will to safeguard our national treasures.”