This lifetime achievement award
goes to a man who has made
an extraordinary contribution
to the world of architecture,
Raymond Moriyama.
(Crowd applauding)
At four and half, my future
profession was settled.
I said,
"I'm going to be an architect."
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RAYMOND MORIYAMA:
But it wasn't easy.
The treatment by the Canadian
government during the war,
22,000 Japanese-Canadians
were tossed
into internment camps
in their own country.
You fight back,
and try to improve your country,
your community.
