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Book SynopsisArchitecture and the Canadian Fabric traces how culture and politics have influenced, and been influenced by, Canadian architecture from first contact to the postmodern era.
Trade ReviewBroad 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 *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Writing into Canadian Architectural History / Rhodri Windsor Liscombe
Part 1: Architectural Culture in French Canada and Before
1 First Impressions: How French Jesuits Framed Canada / Judi Loach
2 Visibility, Symbolic Landscape, and Power: Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin’s View of Quebec City in 1688 / Marc Grignon
Part 2: Upper Canadian Architecture
3 The Expansion of Religious Institution and Ontario’s Economy, 1849-74: A Case Study of the Construction of Toronto’s St. James Cathedral / Barry Magrill
4 “For the benefit of the inhabitants”: The Urban Market and City Planning in Toronto / Sharon Vattay
Part 3: Building the Confederation
5 Shifting Soil: Agency and Building Type in Narratives of Canada’s “First” Parliament / Christopher Thomas
6 Stitching Vancouver’s New Clothes: The World Building, Confederation, and the Making of Place / Geoffrey Carr
7 Digging in the Gardens: Unearthing the Experience of Modernity in Interwar Toronto / Michael Windover
Part 4: Reconstructing Canada
8 A Modern Heritage House of Memories: The Quebec Bungalow / Lucie K. Morisset
9 Place with No Dawn: A Town’s Evolution and Erskine’s Arctic Utopia / Alan Marcus
Part 5: Styling Modern Nationhood
10 The Idea of Brutalism in Canadian Architecture / Réjean Legault
11 Nation, City, Place: Rethinking Nationalism at the Canadian Museum of Civilization / Laura Hourston Hanks
Part 6: Fabricating Canadian Spaces in the Late/Postmodern Era
12 From Earth City to Global Village: McLuhan, Media, and the Cosmopolis / Richard Cavell
13 Big-Box Land: New Retail Format Architecture and Consumption in Canada / Justin McGrail
14 Archi-tizing: Architecture, Advertising, and the Commodification of Urban Community / Rhodri Windsor Liscombe
Part 7: Identities of Canadian Architecture
15 “Canada's Greatest Architect” / Nicholas Olsberg
16 A Question of Identity / Michael McMordie
17 Memory, the Architecture of First Nations, and the Problem with History / Daniel M. Millette
Conclusion: Future Writing on Canadian Architectural History / Rhodri Windsor Liscombe
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