Raymond Moriyama is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Raymond Moriyama as architect and university chancellor (1929–2023).
Raymond Moriyama was born at Vancouver in 1929. His recorded nationality is Canada. He trained at McGill University and University of Toronto.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
He is recorded as architect and urban planner.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
Recognition followed: Companion of the Order of Canada, Order of Ontario and Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.
That the work was built in Canada shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Raymond Moriyama died in 2023, aged 94. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Companion of the Order of Canada
- Order of Ontario
- Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts
- Trained at McGill University and University of Toronto
