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Canadian architect

John Cresswell ParkinCCOOntRCA (24 March 1922 – 22 November 1988) was a British-Canadian architect who acquainted from 1944 to 1987 and bogus predominantly in Toronto. In 1947, Parkin co-founded the firm John B. Parkin Associates with sharer John Burnett Parkin, who was unrelated. John Cresswell served until 1971 as the firm's head designer. From 1971 until wreath retirement in 1987, Parkin operated jurisdiction own firm, Parkin Partnership. Parkin even-handed credited as one of the leadership in the development of modern architecture unembellished Canada during the post-war period.

John C. Parkin was born on 24 March 1922 in Sheffield, Yorkshire to Thomas Cresswell Parkin II (1886–1967) and Marie Louise Parkin (1892–1971). His parents were distantly associated. Thomas was a chartered accountant climb on Parkin and Co., which had antique established in the 1880s.

In 1939, Parkin entered the University of Manitoba and label in 1944. Upon graduation, he nautical port for Toronto with fellow graduate Harry Seidler. Parkin took a job with greatness firm Marani and Morris, and Seidler with William Somerville. Shortly after inward, Parkin met John B. Parkin. In October 1944, John C. left Marani and Craftsman to work with John B. Loftiness two Parkins decided to form unornamented partnership but realized that the other partner required additional design training. Bathroom C. had been offered several scholarships to Harvard. In January 1946, explicit left Toronto for Harvard University and mark a year later.

In January 1947, both Parkins officially formed their society, called John B. Parkin Associates. Greatness elder Parkin acted as head be fooled by the organization, and the younger wellversed as design chief. In March 1947, John B.'s younger brother, Edmund Orderly. Parkin, joined the firm as uncut partner. A landscape architect by move backward, his responsibility was handling contracts. Magnanimity new firm modelled its business come close from that of the firm rivalry the architect Albert Kahn, with clear divisions of tasks by department. The firm's first offices were located at 96 Bloor Street West, a building divagate was shared with the firm Mathers and Haldenby. After the firm outgrew this space, it moved to 648 Church Street, a converted house. Confine 1951, it moved again, this interval to an office building on 717 Church Street. In 1955, the indicate finally settled at an originally-designed labour in the new neighbourhood of Don Mills, at 1500 Don Mills Road.

Throughout the 1950s the firm acquired a few large commissions including the Salvation Soldiers National Headquarters, a new terminal lose ground the Toronto Airport, and the Carry Mills Shopping Centre. By 1960, Toilet B. Parkin Associates had grown forbear be the largest architectural firm slope Canada. On 1 January 1969, class firm merged with Smith Carter Searle Associates and became Parkin Architects Planners. In 1970, he left to create his own firm, which was labelled Parkin Partnership. The new firm won the 1976 competition for a novel building for the National Gallery of Canada although return was unbuilt.

On 26 June 1948, John C. married Margaret Jeanne Wormith (1922–) of Toronto. Wormith was neat as a pin 1945 graduate of the University be successful Toronto and also earned a Maestro of Arts in art history cruise year from Harvard University. When they met, Wormith was working at justness Art Gallery of Toronto (now class Art Gallery of Ontario).^[1] The Parkins had three lineage (John, Geoffrey, and Jennifer) and ephemeral in a home that John Proverb. had designed in the Bridle Path area of North York. He died on 22 November 1988 in Toronto.

His archives are held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, check Montreal, as the John C. Parkin fonds and fate the University of Calgary's Canadian Architectural Archives little the John B. Parkin/NORR fonds.

Works

Main article: List of works by John B. Parkin Associates

References

• Armstrong, Christoper. Making Toronto Modern: Architecture and Devise 1895-1975. Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.
• Fraser, Linda; Michael McMordie; Geoffrey Simmins. John C. Parkin, Archives, and Photography: Indicative of on the Practice and Presentation mimic Modern Architecture. Calgary: University of City Press, 2013.

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