Ordinary Buildings



Peter Cardew: Ordinary Buildings
Vancouver: Charles H. Scott Gallery
1996-97

 
Curators: E. Shotton, G. Bellerby

Funding: Canada Council for the Arts, the Charles H. Scott Gallery and Lignum Industries







The work of Peter Cardew Architects has an ideological clarity combined with a skillfulness in resolution evocative of early modernism. Cardew strives to pragmatically resolve both social and technological issues in a manner sympathetic to a broad range of contextual issues, remaining unencumbered by issues of style. This exhibition and the publication that followed documented and critically examined this body of work relative to the tenets of early modernism.

The exhibition subsequently travelled extensively across the United States and Canada.

Exhibition photographs





excerpt from publication