About

The Hunter House Foundation stewards the residence at 203 Goward Road and the archival legacy of its architect. Its overarching aim is to realize the speculative futures embedded in Hunter's drawings — among them a cantilevered Skywalk and the unfinished East Wing developments — and to open the archive to scholars, students, and the public. Established 2026 · Victoria, British Columbia · not-for-profit.

The residence

Photograph 203 Goward Road
Prospect Lake · Saanich BC

HH-P-0142 The residence — the building the Foundation stewards 2024

Mandate

Three columns of work.

01 / Stewardship

Preserve the residence

Maintain the building and grounds at 203 Goward Road as a working architectural environment — habitable, photographable, available to researchers under defined conditions.

02 / Catalogue

Publish the archive

Catalogue every item under a permanent identifier scheme. Maintain the structured catalogue as a Wikibase. Open the data.

03 / Realize

Build what was drawn

Where the drawings record speculative additions that were never built — the cantilevered Skywalk, the unbuilt East Wing rooms, the Zen scheme — investigate the feasibility of completing them.

Fellowship

The Hunter House Student Fellowship is a pilot fellowship supporting one or two students per semester on research, design, writing, or art engaging the archive. Open to undergraduate and graduate students working at the intersections Hunter himself moved through — architecture and its adjacent disciplines: art history, Zen, vernacular and alternative communities, organic design. Each fellowship culminates in a deliverable that enters the archive.

Applications open September 2026. Write for the prospectus.

People

Founding steward

Floyd Marinescu

Established the Foundation with Olivia Jol on acquiring the Hunter Residence in 2023. Directs long-range planning and the financial stewardship of the property.

Founding steward

Olivia Jol

Established the Foundation with Floyd Marinescu on acquiring the Hunter Residence in 2023. Art historian by training; guides design decisions and the studio program.

Master carpenter

Brin [surname]

Carpenter to the house. Holds the practical knowledge of its structure and detailing across years of continuous work; executes built additions, repairs, and refinements on site.

Master cabinetmaker

Eric Gesinger

Cabinetmaker to the house. Designed and produced the chairs for the 2018 Dining Room Addition; custodian of Hunter's furniture drawings, gifted to the Foundation in connection with that work.

Project lead

Brandon Poole

Architect and researcher. Oversees the cataloguing program, the Wikibase migration, and the public site. Based in Victoria.

Contact

Hunter House Foundation, 203 Goward Road, Prospect Lake, Saanich BC, Canada V8B 4S5.

General · mail@hunterhousefoundation.com
Archive access · archive@hunterhousefoundation.com
Fellowship · fellowship@hunterhousefoundation.com

Privacy

The archive measures usage in a deliberately minimal, privacy-respecting way: which items are viewed, what visitors search for, which files are downloaded, and a coarse country. We set no cookies, store no IP addresses, and use no third-party trackers — the small amount of data we keep lives in the Foundation’s own infrastructure and exists only to help us catalogue what people are looking for. If your browser sends a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal, we record nothing. You can also opt a device out entirely by visiting the catalogue with ?noanalytics=1 appended to the address (and ?noanalytics=0 to opt back in).

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