Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan Heritage Architecture Excellence Award
Practice
Clifford Wiens Architects Ltd. (1957-1969 and 1987-1994)
Wiens and Associates Ltd. (1970-1979)
Wiens Johnstone Architects Ltd. (1979-1987)
Projects
Poultry Science and Horticultural Building (University of Saskatchewan, 1965)
Saskatchewan Legislative Building (restoration and renovation, 1965–1979)
National Gallery of Canada (unrealized, 1976)
Clifford Donald WiensRCA (27 April 1926 – 25 January 2020) was a Canadian writer, poet, designer and architect.[2][3][4][5][6] Clifford Wiens played a crucial role in the development of corporate modern architecture and the broader Expressionist Movement in postwar Mid-West Canada.[3][6] Wiens was defined as a poetic architect and his projects reflect this through their communication with both the client and the user.[3][7] This poetry was best shown in his work on the University of Regina Heating and Cooling Building.[2][3][6][8][9]
Clifford Wiens has held a few design philosophies throughout his career as an architect and designer. Aside from communication between all parties, the belief he most prioritized was that architecture is all about pleasing the user's eye, mind, and body.[10] Another belief that he held firm was that an architect must design a project that works, firmly believing that flashy buildings that fail to satisfy both the client and the user are failures.[7][10] He also strongly believed that the architect is an improver and when an architect does things well that the world is improved.[5][9][10]
Raised in Glen Kerr, Saskatchewan, Wiens did not originally study architecture.[2][3][9] He would instead begin his post secondary schooling with agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan with a full scholarship that came from the Wheat Pool Sponsorship program from the Moose Jaw Technical School.[2][10] Clifford Wiens would then transfer out of the program, and study painting at the Banff Centre for Continuing Education with AY Jackson.[2][3][10] Wiens would then move on from painting due to an inability to find a career in it and study at the Rhode Island School of Design on a full scholarship and graduate in 1954.[2][3][4][8][9] Upon his completion of the program, Wiens would return to Regina and establish his own architecture firm in 1957.[4][5][9]
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^ abcdefAtter, Heidi. "Sask. Architect Clifford Wiens Dies at 93 | CBC News." CBC news. CBC/Radio Canada, 4 February 2020. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-architect-clifford-wiens-dies-93-1.5450964 .
^ abcdefg"Brilliant Saskatchewan architect Clifford Wiens created poetic structures". The Globe and Mail. 23 February 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
^ abc"Remembering the life of Clifford Wiens". leaderpost.remembering.ca. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
^ abc"Heating and Cooling Plant at The University Of Regina". Canadian Architect. 30 April 2011. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
^ abSeitz, Elizabeth (2018). "Clifford Wiens". University of Regina. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
^ abFlaman, Bernard (1 April 2006). "Telling Details". Canadian Architect. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
^ abcdeLam, Elsa (7 February 2020). "In Memoriam: Clifford Wiens". Canadian Architect. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
^ abcdeWiens, Clifford (2013). Project by project: Architectural Memoirs. Vancouver: Wiens Publishing Company. pp. 1–495. ISBN 9780988087811.
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Philadelphia, United States March 4, 1962 1951 Nominated by her husband Charles Clifford Macklin (23.10.1883-23.11.1959) (id=5776 id=5775) the only time (id=5777)...
(1956) gives a clear statement and proof of the theorem. The papers of Clifford (1954) and Hausner & Wendel (1952) together provide another proof. See...
January 2009. Lorli von Trapp Campbell, of ‘Sound of Music’ family, dies Clifford, Stephanie (24 December 2008). "Von Trapps Reunited, Without the Singing"...
2018. Bardner, R. in Clifford & Wilson 1985, pp. 208–209. Bardner, R. in Clifford & Wilson 1985, p. 210. Bardner, R. in Clifford & Wilson 1985, p. 211...
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Ryan Eriquezzo Leif Force Andy Frankenberger Adam Friedman Michael Gathy Clifford Goldkind Brent Hanks Roger Hairabedian Brian Hastings Phil Hellmuth (2)...
nonlinear partial differential equation introduced by the mathematician Clifford Gardner in 1968 to generalize KdV equation and modified KdV equation. The...
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recounts split-biquaternions and parabolic biquaternions originated by Clifford. But Vahlen cites Eduard Study most of all since Study also focussed on...
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