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LOWER LONSDALE
CRAIG LUCCOCK is
seeking teen volunteers
for Contacts, a program
to match older teens
(Grades 10 to 12) with
pre-teens (Grades 5 to 7)
for the purpose of estab-
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ing fun and creating men-
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Co-Arc

International Gallery
welcomes Ou tO
Russian Mosaic
tine
West Van Exhibition.
A unique exhibition of
works by 26 renowned
contemporary = Russian
artists will be held during
four Open House Weekends,
~ March 9-10th .
March 16-17th
March 23-24th
March 30-31st
Weekdays by appointment
~~ at

Co-Art International Gailery’s
: ”. Artists’ Residence,
4522 Vioodgre2n Place,
West Voncoaver
921-1128 wknds; 669-5944 whuys

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design dies
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BRITISH COLUMBIA lost one of its great innovators

when West Vancouver’s Ned Pratt, 84, died in an auto
accident last week.

By Robert Galster
Conitributing Writer

A renowned architect, Pratt is best known for his
work on the B.C. Hydro building in Vancouver. He
won honorable mention for the 1957 Massey Award
-— the most prestigious architecture award in
Canada.

Pratt was bom in Boston and came to Canada in 1921. He grad-
uated from the University of Toronto in 1938. In his youth he was
a distinguished athlete and won a rowing Olympic bronze’ medal
for Canada in 1932.

As a champion of architecture’s Intemational movement, Pratt
focused on the practicality and simplicity of life within a structure.

Fred Hollingsworth of North Vancouver cotusidered Pratt a
mentor and a friend. He said that while some may say the move-
ment is “unemotional in extreme cases,” Pratt was not restrictive in
his approach. He later played a part in the development of the West
Coast movement which married the Intemational with the Organic
styles.

“It was taking best parts of both and experimenting,” said

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NED PRATT’S original Lawson Avenue residence in
West Vancouver is an example of the international
style he championed.

Hollingsworth, who credits Pratt with facilitating and encouraging
the evolution by allowing his employees freedom in design.

That open-mindedness led to the firm of Thompson, Berwick
and Pratt coming to be called a “practical college” not only because
there were no architecture schools on Canada’s West Coast, but also
because some of the biggest names in architecture got their start
there. Among these were Arthur Erickson, Paul Merrick and Ron
Thom. During the 1990s, Pratt pursued his life-long hobby of paint-
ing watercolors. Pratt is survived by two children, Toni and Peter.