In the late 1970s, Hugo Eppich’s twin brother Helmut was living in a house designed by Canada’s pre-eminent architect Arthur Erickson. “So when it came time to build a home of my own, I of course wanted an Arthur Erickson house too,” Eppich recalls. There was, he says, some resistance from friends and family. ”People said, ‘Why are you getting the same architect? You’re going to end up with the same house as your brother.”
But Eppich persevered, and commissioned a steel and glass home set on a hillside in the British Properties neighborhood of West Vancouver. “My brother’s house,” Eppich notes, “was totally concrete.”
