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Clifford Donald Wiens RCA (27 April 1926 – 25 January 2020) was a Canadian writer, poet, designer and architect. Clifford Wiens played a crucial role in the development of corporate modern architecture and the broader Expressionist Movement in postwar Mid-West Canada. Wiens was defined as a poetic architect and his projects reflect this through their communication with both the client and the user. This poetry was best shown in his work on the University of Regina Heating and Cooling Building. Clifford Wiens has held a few design philosophies throughout his career as an architect and designer. Aside from communication between all parties, the belief he most prioritized was that architecture is all about pleasing the user's eye, mind, and body. Another belief that he held firm was that an architect must design a project that works, firmly believing that flashy buildings that fail to satisfy both the client and the user are failures. He also strongly believed that the architect is an improver and when an architect does things well that the world is improved. Raised in Glen Ker, Saskatchewan, Wiens did not originally study architecture. He would instead begin his post secondary schooling with agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan with a full scholarship that came from the Wheat Pool Sponsorship program from the Moose Jaw Technical School. Clifford Wiens would then transfer out of the program, and study painting at the Banff Centre for Continuing Education with AY Jackson. Wiens would then move on from painting due to an inability to find a career in it and study at the Rhode Island School of Design on a full scholarship and graduate in 1954. Upon his completion of the program, Wiens would return to Regina and establish his own architecture firm in 1957. (en)

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Rhode Island School of Design (en)

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City of Regina Heritage Award (en)
Design Canada Concrete Award (en)
National Design Council of Canada Awards (en)

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Clifford Wiens (en)

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Clifford Wiens Architects Ltd. (en)
Wiens Johnstone Architects Ltd. (en)
Wiens and Associates Ltd. (en)

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Poultry Science and Horticultural Building (en)

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Patricia Elizabeth Leigh (en)

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Clifford Donald Wiens RCA (27 April 1926 – 25 January 2020) was a Canadian writer, poet, designer and architect. Clifford Wiens played a crucial role in the development of corporate modern architecture and the broader Expressionist Movement in postwar Mid-West Canada. Wiens was defined as a poetic architect and his projects reflect this through their communication with both the client and the user. This poetry was best shown in his work on the University of Regina Heating and Cooling Building. (en)

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