James Strutt
James W. Strutt was a Canadian architect. Inspired by American architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Buckminster Fuller, James Strutts designs fostered the modernist age in Canadian architecture. He revered the former for incorporating nature into architectural design, and admired the latter for having invented the geodesic dome. In all his work, Mr. Strutt explored the beauty of geometry, structure and form in nature.
James W. Strutt was born in Pembroke, Ontario. He attended school in Pembroke, Montreal and Ottawa. Upon finishing at Ottawa Technical High School in 1942, he enlisted into the Royal Canadian Airforce, becoming a pilot. Following the war, he attended the University of Toronto, School of Architecture. His initial influences while at UoT were Frank Lloyd Wright and Buckminster Fuller particularly Wrights material and environmental sensitivity, and Fullers theories on weight efficiency ratios. Strutt was one of the students who were instrumental in getting Wright to UoT for a workshop and he would later collaborate with Fuller during his academic career. On a field trip to attend a lecture being given by Pier Luigi Nervi at North Carolina State University, Strutt took a side trip to visit the Eduardo Catalano House in Raleigh, NC and was very impressed by Catalanos modern statement.
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