"The world potential market for copying machines is 5000 at most."~ IBM, to the eventual founders of Xerox, saying the photocopier had no market large enough to justify production, 1959.
CCW - Catherine Chard Wisnicki
submitted on: September 18, 2011 by Elephant Island
(Our Grandmother, Mother + Great Grandma)
A woman who's tastes at 94 are more modern than her grandkids;
A woman who's achievements as one of Canada's first female architects she viewed as sensible, not revolutionary;
A woman who in 1949 climbed mountains for fun;
And a woman who's vision to invest in a "white elephant" created Elephant Island.
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Field, BC 1954
An illuminating example of the ways in which one Canadian architect and urban historian... imbued the technology as well as formal and spatial explorations of modernism with a local resonance.
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