Building the West : the early architects of British Columbia / compiled and edited by Donald Luxton.

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Building the West : the early architects of British Columbia / compiled and edited by Donald Luxton.

Publication:

Description:

560 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 526-530) and indexes.
Foreword. The evolving role of the architect in a frontier culture -- Outpost of empire. Gold rushes bring European settlement to the West Coast -- Canada on the Pacific. The promise of a transcontinental railway brings British Columbia into Confederation -- The coming of steel. Expansion and consolidation of settlements in the imperial age -- The wildest excitements. Mining booms spark a brief wave of new settlement -- The last best West. Unprecedented Western boom, total collapse and the Great War -- On the verge of modernism. Staggering recovery, another collapse and the threat of another war -- Additional significant architects.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0889224749
9780889224742

Subject:

Architects British Columbia Biography.
Architecture British Columbia.
Architecture British Columbia History.
Architectes Colombie-Britannique Biographies.
Architecture Colombie-Britannique Histoire.
Architecture Colombie-Britannique.
Architects
Architecture
British Columbia

Form/genre:

History
Biographies
Books.

Added entries:

Luxton, Donald, 1954-

Holdings:

Location: Library study room canada 227660
Call No.: NA748.B84 2003
Status: Available

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