Title & Author:

Architecture and the Canadian fabric / edited by Rhodri Windsor Liscombe.

Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2011.

Description:

xvi, 514 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : writing into Canadian architectural history / Rhodri Windsor Liscombe -- First impressions : how French Jesuits framed Canada / Judi Loach -- Visibility, symbolic landscape, and power : Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin's view of Quebec City in 1688 / Marc Grignon -- 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 -- "For the benefit of the inhabitants" : the urban market and city planning in Toronto / Sharon Vattay -- Shifting soil : agency and building type in narratives of Canada's "First" Parliament / Christopher Thomas -- Stitching Vancouver's new clothes : the world building, Confederation, and the making of place / Geoffrey Carr -- Digging in the gardens : unearthing the experience of modernity in interwar Toronto / Michael Windover -- A modern heritage house of memories : the Quebec bungalow / Lucie K. Morisset -- Place with no dawn : a town's evolution and Erskine's Arctic utopia / Alan Marcus -- The idea of brutalism in Canadian architecture / Réjean Legault -- Nation, city, place : Rethinking nationalism at the Canadian Museum of Civilization / Laura Hourston Hanks -- From earth city to global village : McLuhan, media, and the cosmopolis / Richard Cavell -- Big-box land : new retail format architecture and consumption in Canada / Justin McGrail -- Archi-tizing architecture, advertising, and the commodification of urban community / Rhodri Windsor Liscombe -- "Canada's greatest architect" / Nicholas Olsberg -- A question of identity / Michael McMordie -- Memory, the architecture of First Nations, and the problem with history / Daniel M. Millette -- Conclusion : Further writing on Canadian architectural history / Rhodri Windsor Liscombe.

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ISBN:

9780774819398 (bound) :
0774819391
9780774819404
0774819405

Subject:

Architecture and society Canada.
Architecture Political aspects Canada.
Architecture Canada History.
Architecture et société Canada.
Architecture Aspect politique Canada.
Architecture Canada Histoire.
Architecture.
Architecture and society.
Architecture Political aspects.
Architektur
Kulturpolitik
Canada.
Kanada

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History.

Added entries:

Liscombe, Rhodri Windsor, 1946-

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 275452
Call No.: NA740 .A73 2011
Status: Available