The GettyResearch Institute
Research Home Tools Union List of Artist Names Full Record Display
Union List of Artist Names Full Record Display
New Search Previous Page Help
Click the icon to view the hierarchy.
 
Semantic View (JSONJSONLDRDFN3/TurtleN-Triples)

ID: 500033907
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500033907

 

Record Type: Person
Kalns, Ojars (Latvian architect, born 1932, active in Canada from 1950)

Note: Kalns emigrated to Brampton, Ontario, Canada from Latvia in 1950. He studied at McMaster University from 1952 to 1953 and moved to Vancouver in 1956. He received his architecture degree from the University of British Columbia in 1962. He studied under and worked briefly for Arthur Erickson. He also worked for C.B.K. Van Norman and Associates from 1964 to 1968. He was in private practice from 1968 to 1975, which he renamed (after the sudden passing of his mentor, C.B.K. Van Norman) Kalns Van Norman from 1975 to 1986. He currently runs the firm Ojars Kalns Architect. He was admitted as a Member of the Architectural Institute of British Columbia and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 1965.

Names:
Kalns, Ojars (preferred,V,index)
Ojars Kalns (V,display)

Nationalities:
Canadian (preferred)
Latvian

Roles:
architect (preferred)

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Alūksne (Alūksnes Novads, Latvia) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   from 1950  Canada (North and Central America) (nation)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
employee of ....  Van Norman, Charles B. K.  1964-1968
....................  (Canadian architect, 1906-1975) [500033504]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Kalns, Ojars (I)

Biographies:
(Latvian architect, born 1932, active in Canada from 1950) ..... [VP Preferred]
(Canadian and Latvian architect; born Aluksne (Latvia), 1932; active Canada, from 1950) ..... [CCA]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Kalns, Ojars ........ [CCA Preferred]
..........................  Liscombe, New Spirit: Modern Architecture (1997) 203
Ojars Kalns ........ [CCA]
........................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database

Subject: ........ [CCA]
....................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................  Liscombe, New Spirit: Modern Architecture (1997) 203
 
Note:
English .......... [CCA, VP]
.......... Liscombe, New Spirit: Modern Architecture (1997)
New Search

Back to Top

Printer Friendly Version

The J. Paul Getty Trust
The J. Paul Getty Trust