Show threadSenator Paula Simons🇨🇦Oct 12, 2023
If you watch the trailer, you will see that I am bundled up like an extra from Dr. Zhivago. We shot that interview outside in May of 2022....when it was not supposed to snow. But when it snowed nonetheless. #AGA #ArtGalleryofAlberta #DydeHouse #UAlberta #EdmontonDesignWeek
Senator Paula Simons🇨🇦Oct 12, 2023
Honoured and excited to be one of the speakers at the Art Gallery of Alberta tonight, as we get our first peek at the award-winning new documentary about Arthur Erickson's Dyde House. Join us if you're able! https://www.edmontondesignweek.com/events/edw2023/dyde-house #Edmonton #yeg #EdmontonDesignWeek #AGA #ArtGalleryofAlberta #DydeHouse #UniversityofAlberta #UniversityofAlbertaBotanicGardens ##yegheritage #UAlberta
Arthur Erickson’s Dyde House: Screening and Panel — Edmonton Design Week 2023

Join us for a screening of "Arthur Erickson’s Dyde House," a new feature documentary ( watch the trailer here ) about a rediscovered early Arthur Erickson house and garden just outside of Edmonton, the source of many career-long design ideas for Canada’s most influential architect. The eve

Edmonton Design Week 2023
Show threadSenator Paula Simons🇨🇦Sep 27, 2023
Here is my 2016 story for the Edmonton Journal about Dyde House - to explain a bit more of its history and magic. https://edmontonjournal.com/business/real-estate/paula-simons-dyde-house-is-an-architectural-gem-with-a-fascinating-past-and-uncertain-future #Edmonton #yeg #UniversityofAlberta #DydeHouse #architecture #modernism #ParklandCounty #EdmontonJournal #yegheritage #yeghistory
Paula Simons: The fascinating past and uncertain future of Edmonton's Dyde House

Dyde House — a mid-modern gem that has been gifted to the U of A — is one of the most famous homes in Edmonton that no one has ever heard of

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Senator Paula Simons🇨🇦Sep 27, 2023
Dyde House is a remarkable early work by Canadian modernist architect Arthur Erickson, hidden deep in the woods of the University of Alberta Botanic Gardens. I've been fascinated by it for years. Now I'm excited for the release of a new documentary about the building - in which I get to play a small part. Here's the trailer - to whet your appetite. https://vimeo.com/826372536 #architecture #ArthurErickson #UniversityofAlberta #Edmonton #ParklandCounty #yeg #DydeHouse #yegheritage #yeghistory
Arthur Erickson's Dyde House - Trailer

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