Van Ginkel Associates

This book examines the exceptional work of Van Ginkel Associates, the office of husband and wife Sandy Van Ginkel and Blanche Lemco. With a multitude of international relations – including Team Ten, Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn – they connected the radical ideas of avant-garde architects in Europe with the Canadian context, where modern architecture and planning were in their infancy. Based on extensive research in the VGA Archive and interviews with Lemco and others, this book introduces the life and ideas of the Van Ginkels and their office, emphasizing their highly conceptual approach: how the Van Ginkels absorbed, developed, and mediated novel concepts and approaches and introduced them to a rapidly evolving, and urbanizing, Canada.