From the Vancouver Heritage Foundation:
MID-CENTURY MODERN HOUSE TOUR
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Saturday August 17, 2013
12 noon – 5 pm followed by a wine & cheese reception
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For Tickets: $85 for self-guided tour
Now in its 7th year, Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s Mid-20th Century Modern House Tour opens five examples of 1950 – 1970s architecture to ticketholders for an afternoon tour.
Post World War II modernist architecture in Vancouver developed a regional style that responded directly and imaginatively to the omnipresent landscape and weather: 
the forest and waters of Burrard Inlet, high rainfall and the grey light against the backdrop of the Coast Mountains.
Vancouver nurtured what the Vancouver Province in January 1953 called ‘a growing creative spirit that yielded a new renaissance of building.’ The city attracted architects in search of new experiences, and a new manner of living.
Open on the August 17th tour are Architectural designs of Fred Hollingsworth, Robert McKee renovated in 2007 by Nick Milkovich, Harold Semmens, Don Fairbrother and the design-build company of Lewis Construction who designed and built hundreds of houses in North and West Vancouver.
For details, go here.
Lewis construction yes: scores of modest, well designed, well constructed single family dwelling, very popular in North Vancouver, especially in West Lynn in the early 50’s.
Inexpensive but not cheap! Post and beam construction using indigenous material to its utmost utility: 2″ tongue and groove fir decking on fir beams four-foot centers: a module reflected on the exterior, simple and very attractive.
A highly appropriate non-architect design many survive today, hardly recognizable, hiding behind mature greenery, modified to meet a new owner’s family needs.
Fred Hollingsworth, Ron Thom NOT! Slavishly replicating early designs of FLW’s Usonian and Prairie houses humiliatingly pretending an indigenous idiom.
Arthur Erickson! “Concrete is the new marble” and why Vancouver is now a sorry mass of bland gray stumps.
Arthur, uptight, boring, afraid to let go, was never in the office so God knows who did the designs.
Try a real indigenous architecture befitting . . .
http://www.theyorkshirelad.ca/8architecture/sixbuildings.html
. . . a geometrical self-sustaining structural forms counter-pointing an ethos of ubiquitous fervent greenery applying contemporary industrial technology, modestly respecting the environmental exclusivity, the residents, the land and its people.
Only on Vancouver’s north and west shores.
For Tickets: $85 for self-guided tour. Don’t waste your money!