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James W. Strutt (January 8, 1924 – November 8, 2008) was a Canadian architect. Inspired by American architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Buckminster Fuller, James Strutt's designs fostered the modernist age in Canadian architecture. He revered the former for incorporating nature into architectural design, and admired the latter for having invented the geodesic dome. In all his work, Mr. Strutt explored the beauty of geometry, structure and form in nature. ==Biography== James W. Strutt (James William Strutt: January 8, 1924 - November 8, 2008) was born in Pembroke, Ontario. He attended school in Pembroke, Montreal and Ottawa. Upon finishing at Ottawa Technical High School in 1942, he enlisted into the Royal Canadian Airforce, becoming a pilot. Following the war, he attended the University of Toronto, School of Architecture. His initial influences while at UoT were Frank Lloyd Wright and Buckminster Fuller; particularly Wright's material and environmental sensitivity, and Fuller's theories on weight efficiency ratios. Strutt was one of the students who were instrumental in getting Wright to UoT for a workshop and he would later collaborate with Fuller during his academic career. On a field trip to attend a lecture being given by Pier Luigi Nervi at North Carolina State University, Strutt took a side trip to visit the Eduardo Catalano House in Raleigh, NC and was very impressed by Catalano's modern statement. For fifty-five years Strutt contributed prolifically to the field of Modern Canadian Architecture. Having practiced for over half a century, Strutt produced a large body of both residential and institutional exploratory architectures. As his professional career progressed he pushed the existing paradigms of what constituted the norm in the cultural, technical and methodological practices of the built environment. His early explorations in non-orthogonal geometry and the hyperbolic-paraboloid led to several exemplary projects, including his own home, which is an early -and seminal- example of his residential work.〔('The Strutt House' Brian Hierlihy and Titania Truesdale, Heritage Conservation Symposium, Carleton University, Ottawa, March 16th 2013 2013 )〕 Many of his early experimental works were residential in scope, however the scale of his praxis was not limited there, but extended to both commercial and institutional architecture. He designed and built many projects that covered everything from retail to industrial business', educational institutions, and government laboratories to airports. His series of churches constitute a body of work that aspire to both reflect and elevate the parishioner through built form, a concept initiated, held and nurtured, based on his Bachelor of Architecture thesis. Throughout his career Strutt held many positions in his profession's associated organizations, including most notably, Registrar and Dean of the College of Fellows of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and, in 1959, became the youngest president in the Ontario Association of Architects's (OAA) history. Strutt spent many years as an academic, was a Professor and Director at the School of Architecture (now the Azrieli School of Architecture) at Carleton University. He was, until his death, an enthusiastic persona, a passionate and inclusive ambassador of architecture, a generous scholar and mentor. Over 5,000 of his drawings form part of the permanent collection of Library and Archives Canada. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Strutt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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