Fonds F0070 - Fred Valentine fonds

Llewellyn Frederick (Fred) Valentine was born in Calgary to Llewellyn Joseph Valentine, an insurance broker. Fred Valentine was raised in Calgary where he attended Elbow Park Public School, Rideau Park Junior High School, and Central Collegiate Institute. He received his Bachelor of Architecture in 1963 from the University of Toronto and his Master in Architecture 1965 from Harvard University.
After graduating from the University of Toronto, Fred Valentine started practicing architecture with Parkin Architects in Toronto in 1963. He took a year off to attend Harvard University in 1964. In 1965 he returned to Calgary and worked at J.A. Cawston & Associates. He then returned to Toronto to become Design Associate at Parkin Architects where he would remain employed from 1966 to 1978 based in Toronto with work in the Maritimes, Asia, and the Caribbean. He returned to Calgary in 1979 and joined J.H. Cook Architects & Engineers, which was later renamed Culham Pedersen Valentine. Valentine was Design Partner and remained with the firm until 2005 when he joined Stantec Architecture. Valentine retired from Stantec in 2009 but continued practicing architecture as a consultant and in partnership with his daughter Liza Valentine.
Among the notable works of Fred Valentine are the NOVA Building (awarded the Massey Medal in Architecture in 1982, and now the home of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at the University of Calgary), the Calgary Herald Building (now U-Haul Canada building), Scurfield Hall and the Rozsa Centre at the University of Calgary, the Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Building and the Composer’s Studio at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Canada Olympic Park XV Olympic Winter Games facilities, the refurbished Jubilee Auditoria in Calgary and Edmonton, and the Library Information Network Centre at the University of Lethbridge.
Fred Valentine was awarded the Alberta Association of Architects Tom Sutherland Leadership Award in 2018. He is a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. From 1991 to 2019, Valentine was an Adjunct Professor with the School of Architecture at the University of Calgary. He has served on the Board of the Glenbow Museum, as Chairman of the XV Olympic Winter Games Medals Committee, as Governor of the Calgary Allied Arts Foundation, as a member of the Calgary Planning Commission, and as Director of the Calgary Downtown Association, among many other public service roles throughout his life. Fred Valentine is married to Catherine Valentine and has two children, Liza and George. He lives in Calgary.