Vancouver Art Gallezy B.C. Binning’s 1957 maquette for the imperial Bank Mural is emblematic of the interaction between art and architecture on the West Coast in the Fifties. Architecture meeis art in new exhibit Art galiery hosts Oui of this Century NEWS photo Mike Wakefield CORNELIA Oberlander stands before Arthur Lismer’s painting Vancouver Island, B.C., part of Vancouver Art Gallery's Out of this Century exhibit. The landecape archiiect assesses the 1950s. 412 W. Hastings 682.5288 1.800.663.1351 Fone in ettect toning Ley, Sundoy One Day Gniy! Sunday, Dec. 26th 9:30.a.m. to @ Out of this Century, to Feb. 27 at the Vancouver Art Gallery Layne Christensen News Reporter VANCOUVER was a smal town when Cornelia Oberlander arrived on a rainy day in 1953. “I saw Marcel Marceau perform- ing in the Georgia Street Auditorium. I'd seen him in Philadelphia and New York and I couldn’: believe that a hockey arena would serve the same,” recalls Canada’s premier landscape architect, while leading a group of docents through the exibition Out of this Century at the Vencouver Arc Gallery. Oberlander is une of six prominent Vancouverites who share their vision of the city’s visual-arés scene through the decades by select- ing art works from the gallery’s per- manent collection. One of the first women to gradu- ate, in 1947, from Harvard with 2 degree in landscape architeccure, she met her future husband, Peter. Oberlander, at a class picnic. Together they moved to the West Coast, where Oberlander, who had studied under the architect Walter Gropius of the Bauhaus school, soon discovered that Vancouver was fast becoming a centre for the interpreta- tion of modernist architecture theory and practice, “I was well familiar when I arrived here with what was called the International style,” Oberlander teils the group. “Ned Prazr and Bertie See Spirit page 44 downioad boxing day web coupons at wardmusic.com print them out, bring them in and. selected instruments and accessories 1% to 7O% off! ngrey 305-6339 200th St. 530.8704 1.888.788.4339 north vancouver 1615 Lonsdale 986.0014 911 Fort Street 250.385.3413 1.888.230.6443 - December 20h, 1925 from 5:50 am to 5.09 Lin. “Book Discount dows nat eppiy 10 vires, textbooks or apneia! orders. Al anes Feral, am. to Ho depowts, leyewayt or spectel orders. EHO.E, 6:09 p.m.