Architect AIBC, MRAIC, LEED AP, and Accredited Passivhaus Designer Cedric Burgers had some help being set up for success, thanks to parents who fostered a creative culture and hard work. “In retrospect, it had a monumental influence on the young lives of us siblings,” he shares. “Dinner table discussions, often with pens and paper, where guests and family were compelled to describe, concisely and with diagrams, an idea or story. The act of drawing in real time in front of people is liberating and without shame. Constantly training that skill makes it normal, and it is now an essential part of my creative process with clients.”
Burgers holds a bachelor?s degree in anthropology and a master?s degree in architecture from the University of British Columbia. His experience level grew by working with Daniel Libeskind and Müller, Knippschild, Wehberg Landscape Architects in Berlin, Germany, after graduating. This all led to the eventual founding of BURGERS ARCHITECTURE. Burgers first felt the magnetic pull of architecture in 1976, when Arthur Erickson designed the Museum of Anthropology. He had the chance to visit shortly after its opening, and his worldview shifted. “There is a famous space in the museum underground where a carving by Haida artist Bill Reid sits on a plinth of concrete and grey sisal carpet. The sculpture depicts the birth of man from a clam shell, topped by a huge raven. The piece is lit from above, as though it were in a forest cl...