(b Calgary, Alta, 7 March 1934). Canadian architect. He studied at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (1953-4), and at the University of Texas in Austin (1956-63; BArch.). He worked for Bissell & Holman in Red Deer, Alberta (1963-7), and opened his practice there in 1964. In 1967 he opened a second office in Edmonton, where he practised from 1976. He was of North American Indian descent, and from the outset of his career in northern Alberta he endeavoured to weld indigenous philosophy, especially that of the Plains Indians, with contemporary material culture and technology. His earliest completed building, Guloien House, Sylvan Lake, Alberta (1967), was one of a series of commissions for social and educational facilities to serve the native peoples in north-western Canada. Besides expressing his aim of combining native tradition with modern practice, it also indicated his consistent social concern by the involvement of the client in the design process; through that same process he developed a Master Plan for the Alberta Indian Education Centre at Edmonton (from 1970).

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