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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe |
| ISBN: | 0774819391 9780774819398 |
| OCLC Number: | 940716465 |
| Description: | 514 s. : illustrations |
| Contents: | Introduction: Writing into Canadian Architectural History / Rhodri Windsor LiscombePart 1: Architectural Culture in French Canada and Before1 First Impressions: How French Jesuits Framed Canada / Judi Loach2 Visibility, Symbolic Landscape, and Power: Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin's View of Quebec City in 1688 / Marc GrignonPart 2: Upper Canadian Architecture3 The Expansion of Religious Institution and Ontario's Economy, 1849-74: A Case Study of the Construction of Toronto's St. James Cathedral / Barry Magrill4 "For the benefit of the inhabitants": The Urban Market and City Planning in Toronto / Sharon VattayPart 3: Building the Confederation5 Shifting Soil: Agency and Building Type in Narratives of Canada's "First" Parliament / Christopher Thomas6 Stitching Vancouver's New Clothes: The World Building, Confederation, and the Making of Place / Geoffrey Carr7 Digging in the Gardens: Unearthing the Experience of Modernity in Interwar Toronto / Michael WindoverPart 4: Reconstructing Canada8 A Modern Heritage House of Memories: The Quebec Bungalow / Lucie K. Morisset9 Place with No Dawn: A Town's Evolution and Erskine's Arctic Utopia / Alan MarcusPart 5: Styling Modern Nationhood10 The Idea of Brutalism in Canadian Architecture / Rejean Legault11 Nation, City, Place: Rethinking Nationalism at the Canadian Museum of Civilization / Laura Hourston HanksPart 6: Fabricating Canadian Spaces in the Late/Postmodern Era12 From Earth City to Global Village: McLuhan, Media, and the Cosmopolis / Richard Cavell13 Big-Box Land: New Retail Format Architecture and Consumption in Canada / Justin McGrail14 Archi-tizing: Architecture, Advertising, and the Commodification of Urban Community / Rhodri Windsor LiscombePart 7: Identities of Canadian Architecture15 "Canada's Greatest Architect" / Nicholas Olsberg16 A Question of Identity / Michael McMordie17 Memory, the Architecture of First Nations, and the Problem with History / Daniel M. MilletteConclusion: Future Writing on Canadian Architectural History / Rhodri Windsor LiscombeIndex |
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Broad in scope and filled with both insight and intriguing fact...this collection serves to entice a more sustained consideration of the relation between the messy realities of social practice and the production of this thing called architecture. -- Christopher Macdonald, University of British Columbia * BC Studies, No.176, Winter 2012-13 * The essays greatly advance the field of architectural history in Canada. Given the breadth on display, Canadian architects and historians surely will find items of interest and pertinence to their practice. -- David Monteyne, Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary * Canadian Architect, April 2013 * According to the editor's conclusion, this study should "reinforce attention to Canadian architectural patrimony and demonstrate its significance for the international discourse and practice of design". This work does succeed in doing so and also adds significantly to the body of literature on Canadian architecture. It is well researched and thoroughly documented. The analytical principles guiding the publication could be applied to other works, including further studies by this group of authors, covering more aspects of the architectural heritage of Canada. -- Barbara Opar, Architecture Librarian, Syracuse University Library * Art Libraries Society of North America * Read more...
