Derek DeLand

•Architect AIBC • MRAIC • public+private • all-typology • portfolio:downspacecreativedotcom •author•art•music•skatepark•gnarchitecture•

[Derek DeLand @formlabdesign]

A rare honour to host and perform our architectural poetry with @ted_landrum, Gregory Scofield, and Dr Patrick Stewart @simoogit_ksibaxhlkw .
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Special thanks to @lisalandrum.arch for photos, and @RAIC_IRAC Katie Russell for facilitating.
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#architecture #poetry #art #writing

[Derek DeLand @formlabdesign]

@bruce_arthur This administration sure is allergic to facts. 🙄

[Derek DeLand @formlabdesign]

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Rider @derekdeland
Photo @_mikefraser_
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Mountain @cypressmtn
BGPs @fnradpodcast @jim_barnum

[Derek DeLand @formlabdesign]

The legal chihuahua-eating age for Washington State eagles is 21, so on MLK weekend these Americans flock to Canada where the party starts at 19.
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#facts #eagles #mlkweekend #chihuahuas #americans

[Derek DeLand @formlabdesign]

2026: Master Complexity

[Derek DeLand @formlabdesign]

Ate tiny reindeer
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#TheTrueChristmasOfMeaning
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Spacing dot ca Derek DeLand

[Derek DeLand @formlabdesign]

Architecture is also poetry; Arthur Erickson knew.

Some of my poetry is now being published by above/ground press, in the @kevin_spenst -led chapbook “Ghosted Under the Christmas Tree”.

With Onjana Yawnghwe, Joshua Pitre, Gary Barwin.

https://t.co/jLyE0UsfUr

[Derek DeLand @formlabdesign]

Nice inversion of public & private space at the outdoor “gallery room” of @BauXiGallery South Granville.
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#architecture #artgallery #artgalleryarchitecture

[Derek DeLand @formlabdesign]

Place des Montréalaises, Nov cover of @canadianarchitect. Nice.
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Connecting Vieux-Montréal, MTL DT, Champ-de-Mars, Ville-Marie Expressway, CHUM, City Hall, plus art re women in Montréal. A kool thing.
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Kudos CA, Elsa Lam, Andrew King, Angela Silver, Lemay

[Derek DeLand @formlabdesign]

Major respect to titan of titanium Frank O. Gehry, a true great and one of my all time favourite architects.
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#architecture #gehry #frankogehry
@frankogehry

[Derek DeLand @formlabdesign]

https://t.co/QW3HQr9RYP
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Q:What if we covered architecture like sport?
A: My fictional interview with @BBCSport.
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Thx @spacingmagazine @e_vill1 @misskimglennie @mkphotomedia @bergman_kyle @annepearson @leahjmallen @joelleondanis @phaidonpress!

[Derek DeLand @formlabdesign]

I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream; that's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor... and surviving.

[Derek DeLand @formlabdesign]

Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one.

[Derek DeLand @formlabdesign]

Window of Opportunity
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#windowofopportunity #sunset #sky #emilycarr #artschool #art #architecture
@emilycarru @emilycarrmfa @diamondschmittarchitects @perkinswill_van @perkinswill_van

[Derek DeLand @formlabdesign]

Happy Birthday to the one and only, inimitable and unlimitable @misskimglennie !

🎶🎸🛹💃🪩🕺✍🏼🎨🖼️🎶

- much love!
From me and all your friends!

[Derek DeLand @formlabdesign]

Happy 25+1 Anniversary to @misskimglennie!

🪐🚀🪐🚀🪐🚀🪐🚀🪐🚀🪐
To rule the galaxy is our dessstiny.
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🚀D.Rock + 🪐Miss Kim

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⚡️🐹⚡️🦄⚡️
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#drock #misskim #drockandmisskim #misskimanddrock #anniversary

[Derek DeLand @formlabdesign]

Happy Fourth of July, everyone!

#freedom

[Derek DeLand @formlabdesign]

HINTERLAND WHO’S WHO
In Farley Mowat’s “Lost in the Barrens”, child warrior @Neilyoung kills a charging grizzly with a @gibsonguitar Les Paul, then fashions its hide into this coat. His thread is caribou sinew, his needle the splintered stare of a canada goose.
#hinterlandwhoswho

[Derek DeLand @formlabdesign]

"Did you think I was going to walk out with a laser sword and take down the whole First Order?"

• Luke Skywalker
in The Last Jedi

[Derek DeLand @formlabdesign]

#goseeastarwar