Hunter

Richard Morrow Hunter — architect, trained at the University of Colorado and the University of Oklahoma. Practice in California and Alaska before relocating to Victoria, British Columbia, in 1968. His residence at 203 Goward Road occupied him from 1970 until 2020 — five decades of continuous design on a single site. b. Phoenix AZ · d. 14 January 2023.

Portrait

The Hunter Residence is the most extensively documented project in his archive. Across its fifty years, Hunter remained its sole architect, sole client, and sole resident. The working file he kept of its drawings is the principal subject of this Foundation.

Formation

[Placeholder] Section in development. Will trace Hunter's training, the influence of the American organic school — Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Goff — and of the drawings of Erich Mendelsohn. Material drawn from the CAA biographical record, the Renegades volume from the Oklahoma School Architecture Press, and primary correspondence held in the archive.

Chronology

A working chronology, balancing biographical, intellectual, and architectural threads. Entries are confirmed against primary sources as the archive is catalogued.

[unknown]Born, Phoenix, Arizona · year pending

1958Graduates from the University of Oklahoma School of Architecture · under the orbit of Bruce Goff

1958 — 68Practice in California and Alaska · records pending

1968Relocates to Victoria, British Columbia

1970Begins designing for 203 Goward Road, Prospect Lake

— gap —Five-decade working record of the residence

2019, '21Donates 1970s build documentation to the Canadian Architectural Archives · F0076

2020Final drawings for the residence

2023Dies in Victoria, 14 January

Architecture, the sheltering art, is a repository of human experience. Richard Hunter · notebook, undated

Exhibitions

[In progress] Exhibitions and publications under research. Confirmed records are catalogued as Wikibase Items in the archive; this prose summary will follow.

Notebook page Pencil annotations · Hunter's hand, undated

HH-N-0004 One of several notebook pages held in the archive undated

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