Canadian Modern Architecture
Canadian Modern Architecture: 1967 to the Present
Elsa Lam, Graham Livesey (Editors)
Canadian Architect/Princeton Architectural Press, November 2019
Hardcover | 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches | 544 pages | 300 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-1616896454 | $55.00
Publisher's Description:
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, and 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 texts by contributing authors George Baird, Brian Carter, Ian Chodikoff, Odile Henault, George Kapelos, Lisa Landrum, Steven Mannell, Sherry McKay, Marco Polo, Colin Ripley, Lola Sheppard, David Theodore, Larry Wayne Richards, Adele Weder and Mason White.dDAB Commentary:
Kenneth Frampton, who penned the Foreword to the impressive, indispensable Canadian Modern Architecture, included two architects (Shim+Sutcliffe and Patkau Architects) in his 2012 book Five North American Architects. Of any historian/critic from the United States, he understands t...
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