page_title: Clifford Wiens
section_title: Wiens Johnstone Architects Ltd., 1979–1986
hierarchical_section_title: Clifford Wiens / Career / Wiens Johnstone Architects Ltd., 1979–1986
caption_attribution_description: English: John Diefenbaker Statue, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada
context_page_description: Clifford Donald Wiens was a Canadian architect, designer, and author.
  The first two-thirds of his professional career spanned forty years, a diverse body of architectural work found throughout Saskatchewan including designs for schools and hospitals, chapels and churches, motel and apartment buildings, private residences, buildings for corporations and health spas, dairy creameries in Regina and Saskatoon, and a Trans-Canada Highway campground. He completed over one hundred projects.
  During the early phase of his career in the 1960s and 1970s, influenced by his relationship with the group of abstract painters known as the Regina Five as well as his own background in industrial design, Wiens actively sought out new ideas and innovations in architecture, interested in developing a style responsive to the prairie landscape and history, developing a reputation for "inventive" architectural and structural details and "simple but strong forms".
  Wiens achieved his greatest prominence after Expo 67, winning three Massey Award medals, Canada's top award for architecture, more than any other Saskatchewan architect, and two National Design Council of Canada Awards.
context_section_description: In 1979, Wiens partnered with Ross Johnstone to form Wiens Johnstone Architects Ltd.
caption: Prince Albert City Hall behind statue of John Diefenbaker outside.
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