Rod Robbie practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Rod Robbie as Canadian architect (1928–2012).
Rod Robbie was born at Poole in 1928. His recorded nationality is Canada.
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.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
Recognition followed: Officer of the Order of Canada.
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.
Rod Robbie died in 2012, aged 84. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Officer of the Order of Canada
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