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Canadian Architecture

Author : Leslie Jen

Publisher : Figure 1 Publishing

Page : 224 pages

File Size : 50,42 MB

Release : 2021-11-16

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 9781773270388

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Canadian Architecture: Evolving a Cultural Identity surveys the country's most accomplished architectural firms, whose work enhances cities and landscapes across Canada's geographically varied expanse. Author Leslie Jen explores a number of significant projects in urban and rural environments--private residences, cultural and institutional facilities, and democratic public spaces--that profoundly influence our interactions with each other and the communities in which we live. Accompanied by stunning photography, Canadian Architecture is a testament to a thriving, diverse and innovative design culture that continues to play an integral role in shaping our national identity.



Canadian Modern Architecture

Author : Elsa Lam

Publisher : Chronicle Books

Page : 544 pages

File Size : 20,77 MB

Release : 2019-11-19

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 1616898836

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Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) President's Medal Award (multi-media representation of architecture). Canada's most distinguished architectural critics and scholars offer fresh insights into the country's unique modern and contemporary architecture. Beginning with the nation's centennial and Expo 67 in Montreal, this fifty-year retrospective covers the defining of national institutions and movements: • How Canadian architects interpreted major external trends • Regional and indigenous architectural tendencies • The influence of architects in Canada's three largest cities: Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver Co-published with Canadian Architect, this comprehensive reference book is extensively illustrated and includes fifteen specially commissioned essays.



Toronto Architecture

Author : Patricia McHugh

Publisher : McClelland & Stewart

Page : 354 pages

File Size : 30,64 MB

Release : 2017-06-27

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 0771059906

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Toronto has been hailed as “a city in the making” and “the city that works.” It’s an ongoing project: in recent years Canada’s largest city has experienced transformative, exciting change. But just what does contemporary Toronto look like? This authoritative architectural guide, newly updated and expanded, leads readers on 26 walking tours—revealing the evolution of the place from a quiet Georgian town to a dynamic global city. More than 1,000 designs are featured: from modest Victorian houses to shimmering downtown towers and cultural landmarks. Over 300 photographs, 29 maps, a description of architectural styles, a glossary of architectural terms, and indexes of architects and buildings pilot readers through Toronto’s diverse cityscape. New sections illustrate the swiftly changing face of Toronto’s waterfront and design highlights across the region. Originally written by architectural journalist Patricia McHugh and enhanced with new material and insights by Globe and Mail architecture critic Alex Bozikovic, this definitive guide offers a revealing exploration of Toronto’s past and future, for the city’s visitors and locals alike.



A Few Minutes of Design

Author : Emily Campbell

Publisher : Chronicle Books

Page : 110 pages

File Size : 44,71 MB

Release : 2019-02-19

Category : Design

ISBN : 1616897708

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“A series of deceptively simple—and fun—exercises . . . A marvelous invitation to anyone with an interest in creativity, invention, and design.” —Michael Bierut, Partner, Pentagram, New York Even concert pianists do warm-up exercises to limber up the fingers and clear the mind for the performance ahead. Designers are, or should be, no different. This delightful collection provides fifty-two exercises or activities to jump-start your creative juices, free you from creative block, start a new project, or finish an existing one. Each exercise offers insight into the innumerable small decisions involved in design. How to join this part to that, how to establish a pattern or continue the series, how to say it without words, what fits, and what doesn’t? For established practicing designers or creatives in any field, these activities are sometimes playful, sometimes challenging—but always enlightening.



The Modern A-Frame

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Publisher : Gibbs Smith

Page : 274 pages

File Size : 45,41 MB

Release : 2018-02-06

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 1423647645

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Midcentury spaces made new: A-Frame homes from rustic to ultra-modern, mountain retreats to seaside getaways. The A-Frame home surged in popularity in the 1950s, and has captured the public’s imagination with its playfully modern, steep-sloping roofline ever since. The Modern A-Frame celebrates seventeen diverse accounts of these minimalists cabins reinvented for the twenty-first century. Nostalgic escapes, heritage homes, full-time simplicity, and artists at work categorize the A-frames whose engaging stories are shared. Whether fabricated from a 1960s kit or as a new build via retro inspiration, the variety of styles and homeowners in this photo-driven collection beautifully captures the romance of a classic structure, which beckons to travelers and homebuyers today, just as it did sixty years ago. Perfect for the architectural enthusiast, midcentury-minded designer, or armchair traveler. Ben Rahn has been photographing architecture and interiors for more than twenty years. He founded A-Frame Studio in 2003 out of a desire to combine his love of design with his keen photographic eye. His work has been recognized internationally and has appeared in publications such as Dwell, Wallpaper, Conde Naste Traveller, and more. He lives in Toronto, Canada.



Architecture and the Canadian Fabric

Author : Rhodri Windsor Liscombe

Publisher : University of British Columbia Press

Page : 514 pages

File Size : 20,64 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 9780774819398

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Architecture plays a powerful role in nation building. Buildings and monuments not only constitute the built fabric of society, they reflect the intersection of culture, politics, economics, and aesthetics in distinct social settings and distinct times. From first contact to the postmodern city, this anthology traces the interaction between culture and politics as reflected in Canadian architecture and the infrastructure of ordinary life. Whether focusing on the construction of Parliament or exploring the ideas of Marshall McLuhan and Arthur Erickson, these highly original essays move beyond considerations of authorship and style to address cultural politics and insights from race and gender studies and from postcolonial and spatial theory.



Shim/Sutcliffe

Author : Brigitte Shim

Publisher :

Page : 100 pages

File Size : 36,25 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Architects

ISBN :

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A Guide to Canadian Architectural Styles, Second Edition

Author : Shannon Ricketts

Publisher : Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press

Page : 262 pages

File Size : 20,35 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Architecture

ISBN :

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"A thoughtful, elegantly written, and easy-to-read guide to over three hundred years of architectural style in Canada." - Kelly Crossman, Carleton University



Landscape Architecture in Canada

Author : Ron Williams

Publisher : McGill Queens Univ

Page : 664 pages

File Size : 25,94 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 9780773542068

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A groundbreaking history of the development of designed landscapes in Canada.



William Thomas, Architect: 1799-1860

Author : Glenn McArthur

Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Page : 169 pages

File Size : 44,70 MB

Release : 1996-05-15

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 0773596070

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Among architect-historians, William Thomas is recognized as being "one of the founders of the Canadian architectural profession." His prodigious output during a 17-year career in Canada, dating from 1843 to 1860, included over 100 buildings, many of which are still standing today. The significance of Thomas' contribution cannot be overestimated. His buildings became the foci of towns, housing the communities' religious, governmental, educational, commercial and cultural activities. In drawings, prints and photographs of this period depicting Toronto, Quebec City, Hamilton, Halifax, London, Guelph, Chatham and Niagara-on-the-Lake, we can see the direct effects of Thomas' work. His church spires pierce the sky, his public buildings dominate town blocks, often his stores are the most fashionable places to shop and his residential designs are artfully placed within their settings. This publication is of special interest not only for the practising architect or historian but, with its strong visuals and informal style, accessible and entertaining for anyone eager to celebrate our architectural heritage.