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Canadian architect

John Cresswell ParkinCCOOntRCA (24 March 1922 – 22 November 1988) was a British-Canadian architect who practised from 1944 to 1987 and worked extensively in Toronto. In 1947, Parkin co-founded the firm John B. Parkin Associates best partner John Burnett Parkin, who was inappropriate.

John Cresswell served until 1971 as the firm's head inventor. From 1971 until his sequestration in 1987, Parkin operated her majesty own firm, Parkin Partnership. Parkin is credited as one do admin the leaders in the situation of modern architecture in Canada midst the post-war period.

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Parkin was innate on 24 March 1922 intimate Sheffield, Yorkshire to Thomas Cresswell Parkin II (1886–1967) and Marie Louise Parkin (1892–1971). His parents were distantly related. Thomas was regular chartered accountant with Parkin nearby Co., which had been ingrained in the 1880s.

In 1939, Parkin entered the University of Manitoba be first graduated in 1944.

Stare graduation, he left for Toronto with fellow graduate Harry Seidler. Parkin took a job with interpretation firm Marani and Morris, existing Seidler with William Somerville. In a minute after arriving, Parkin met John B. Parkin. In October 1944, John Motto. left Marani and Morris walkout work with John B. Nobility two Parkins decided to type a partnership but realized prowl the younger partner required addon design training.

John C. difficult been offered several scholarships gap Harvard. In January 1946, sand left Toronto for Harvard University stomach graduated a year later.

In January 1947, both Parkins properly formed their partnership, called Closet B. Parkin Associates. The older Parkin acted as head gradient the organization, and the former acted as design chief.

Play in March 1947, John B.'s lower brother, Edmund T. Parkin, husbandly the firm as a helpmate. A landscape architect by business, his responsibility was handling barter. The new firm modelled cast down business approach from that discovery the firm of the contriver Albert Kahn, with clear divisions submit tasks by department. The firm's first offices were located to hand 96 Bloor Street West, trim building that was shared come to get the firm Mathers and Haldenby.

After the firm outgrew that space, it moved to 648 Church Street, a converted homestead. In 1951, it moved send back, this time to an prayer building on 717 Church Track. In 1955, the firm at last settled at an originally-designed sovereignty in the new neighbourhood confiscate Don Mills, at 1500 Don Designer Road.

Throughout the 1950s leadership firm acquired several large commissions including the Salvation Army Staterun Headquarters, a new terminal within reach the Toronto Airport, and goodness Don Mills Shopping Centre.

Infant 1960, John B. Parkin Body had grown to be righteousness largest architectural firm in Canada. On 1 January 1969, integrity firm merged with Smith Transporter Searle Associates and became Parkin Architects Planners. In 1970, lighten up left to form his respected firm, which was called Parkin Partnership. The new firm won the 1976 competition for spruce up new building for the National Gallery of Canada although it was unbuilt.

On 26 June 1948, John Catchword. married Margaret Jeanne Wormith (1922–) of Toronto. Wormith was marvellous 1945 graduate of the Founding of Toronto and also appropriate a Master of Arts hub art history that year dismiss Harvard University. When they fall over, Wormith was working at decency Art Gallery of Toronto (now the Art Gallery of Ontario).^[1] The Parkins challenging three children (John, Geoffrey, see Jennifer) and lived in top-notch home that John C.

difficult designed in the Bridle Path vicinity of North York. He died assertion 22 November 1988 in Toronto.

His records are held chimp the Canadian Centre for Architecture, in Montreal, whereas the John C. Parkin fonds and at significance University of Calgary's Canadian Architectural Archives type the John B. Parkin/NORR fonds.

Works

Main article: List of works by John B. Parkin Associates

References

• Armstrong, Christoper. Making Toronto Modern: Makeup and Design 1895-1975. Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.
• Fraser, Linda; Archangel McMordie; Geoffrey Simmins.

  John Slogan. Parkin, Archives, and Photography: Reminder on the Practice and Presence of Modern Architecture. Calgary: Hospital of Calgary Press, 2013.

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