Architect thinks outside the box – Waterloo Record

April 9, 2015

KITCHENER — In a landscape dominated by “meagre boxes,” Douglas Cardinal’s buildings stand out.

The celebrated Canadian architect’s works swoop and flow, curve and contort in artistic harmony with the natural world around them.

“I do not identify with rectilinear forms,” Cardinal told an audience at the Kitchener Public Library on Tuesday. “Buildings should be nurturing, caring, loving beings.”

Best-known among his works are the Canadian Museum of History (formerly the Canadian Museum of Civilization), which stands in Gatineau, Que. across from Parliament Hill, and the National Museum of the American Indian, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

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