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Roger d'Astous, architecte

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Formé par le célèbre architecte américain Frank Lloyd Wright, Roger D'Astous fut un des créateurs les plus féconds de la génération des pionniers québécois du modernisme après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Comme son maître, l'architecte montréalais fut avant tout un bâtisseur de maisons. Toujours fidèle aux principes de l'architecture organique, notamment l'intégration de l'œuvre au milieu naturel et le respect de la propriété des matériaux, il sut, grâce à une recherche persistante, concevoir des formes nouvelles qui lui permirent de créer un style personnel. Roger d'Astous apporta aussi une contribution exceptionnelle à l'architecture religieuse qui franchissait une étape de renouveau au moment où il entamait sa carrière. Sa production d'autres types d'édifices fut moins soutenue, mais presque chaque fois son intervention dans ces domaines a donné lieu à des œuvres qui se démarquent par leur originalité, comme en témoigne l'élégant Château Champlain à Montréal.

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René Richer 1887-1963 architecte maskoutain

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Les édifices construits entre 1920 et 1950, sauf de rares exemples, ne sont pas encore passés dans notre conscience patrimoniale. Ceux de Richer ne font pas exception; ils ont été parfois altérés. L’intérêt de ce livre est double, en ce que non seulement il permet de reconstituer la carrière de l’un de ses nombreux architectes invisibles qui ont tant contribué à notre architecture et à donner un visage propre à une région, mais aussi parce qu’il propose différentes voies d’interprétation de son travail dont le vocabulaire formel est en constante évolution. Un travail de terrain et d’archives, doublé d’attention et de passion, est à la base des interventions des différents chercheurs qui contribuent à cet ouvrage. Grâce à leurs efforts, le nom de Richer résonnera de nouveau dans le paysage architectural québécois.

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Studio East 2006 + 2007 selected student work, Dalhousie University

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The projects exhibited in this edition of StudioEast showcase a variety of student work, dealing with multifaced issues such as the environment, social and material culture, transportation, immigration, urban design, place-making, form, programming, etc. Some projects address singular issues, others multiple. Some design studio themes may be dependent on natural conditions and student design explorations exhibit reactionary gestures along with long-term sustainable goals.

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The architecture of Jerome Markson: Toronto's inclusive modernity

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Jerome Markson’s nearly six-decade-long architectural practice began in a time of profound transformation during the post-war period. His buildings were harbingers of important shifts in sociopolitical attitudes, urban policies, and modes of architectural production. From speculative homes in fledgling suburbs, to bespoke private houses, to social housing in downtown Toronto, to luxury landmarks like the Market Square condominiums, as well as important cultural and institutional buildings, his architecture reflects his pursuit of a more open and inclusive expression of modernity, one that moved past late-Modernism's formal legibility in favour of an increasingly idiosyncratic formal, spatial, and material expression. This book is the first comprehensive critical assessment of Markson's diverse body of work, interwoven with an account of Toronto's emergence as a cosmopolitan city.

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Patkau architects: material operations

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Patkau Architects is known for creating innovative, sculptural buildings that convey artistic expression through the purposeful use of materials. "Patkau Architects: material operations" reveals the architectural philosophy and techniques that drive the firm's extraordinary constructions. Working directly with materials'bending them, breaking them, feeling their texture, mass, and strength provides a depth of understanding that visual observation alone cannot. The firm's creations demonstrate how attending to and playing with specific materials yields a refreshed and expanded perspective on the possible. "Patkau Architects: material operations" investigates how the qualities of commonly available construction materials and unconventional techniques produce buildable, expressive forms with inherent structural capacities and evocative identities.

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The work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple architects: economy as ethic

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MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, have an international reputation. Producing a wide range of projects both in Canada and further afield, they work in a sophisticated modern vernacular idiom, drawing inspiration from a rich local heritage of building types and reinterpreting them according to the best practices of 21st-century architecture. It is above all for their dignified and beautiful houses perched on the wild, rocky coasts of Nova Scotia that the firm is recognized. Overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, this remarkable body of work is based around a number of plan types that answer to the particular local climate: open to the sun but sheltered from the winds, and built using traditional materials that are allowed to weather, these dwellings embody the architects’ engagement with their unique surroundings and material culture. This new monograph covers MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects’ complete work. Introductions by renowned architectural writers set the scene, while individual projects are illustrated through evocative photographs and detailed plans and drawings. What emerges is a celebration of an architecture that is both practical and deeply poetic.

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Dan Hanganu: works, 1981-2015

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Dan Hanganu: works, 1981-2015 presents a detailed graphic record of twelve key projects out of the extensive work of Dan Hanganu, the pioneering Montreal architect. Defying categorization, drawing on rationalist, constructivist, and classical discourses, Dan Hanganu is one of Canada’s most innovative architects. His distinctive works constitute a critical part of Montreal’s architectural history. These works have shaped the architectural synthesis between European architectural history and Canadian culture and geographic conditions, with a defining contribution to Canadian architecture that has influenced other works by generations of architects. Contains an introduction by Essy Baniassad and a foreword by Kenneth Frampton.

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Ron Thom: Copp House. West Coast Modern houses series

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n 1950, a young Vancouver architectural apprentice was handed a small house project that his boss was too busy to take on. The apprentice, Ron Thom, took the simple plan and rectangular foundation that had been roughed in, and transformed it into a groundbreaking work of architecture that gained national fame. Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Neutra, but using local wood and paying careful attention to its verdant oceanside setting, Thom created a landmark for the new architectural movement known as West Coast Modernism. The client, Dr. Harold Copp, was himself a trailblazer, the first head of the physiology department in the University of British Columbia’s new Faculty of Medicine and a research pioneer. Generously illustrated with both vintage and contemporary architectural photography, line drawings, and photographs of the architect and residents, The Copp House is the story of a cultural landmark on the shores of Vancouver.

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Glacier Skywalk

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Magical. Breath-taking. Unforgettable. Perched high above the Sunwapta Canyon in Canada’s Rocky Mountains, Glacier Skywalk is all of these things—and more. Its choreographed pathways and cantilevered viewing platform allow visitors to see and experience the world in a whole new way. "Glacier Skywalk" tells the inside story of this award-winning collaboration between Parks Canada, Brewster Travel and the combined design-and-build team of Sturgess Architecture, PCL Constructors and RJC Consulting Engineers.

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Barry Sampson: Teaching + Practice

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This book documents the ideas and work of notable Canadian architect Barry Sampson, who was a professor of architecture at the University of Toronto for nearly thirty years and an instrumental part of the evolution of Baird Sampson Neuert, a significant critical practice in Toronto. The book investigates key ideas identified in Sampson’s 2019 Baird Lecture at the University of Toronto, documents three projects illustrative of Sampson’s approach to design, and collects reflections on Sampson’s diverse roles in architecture as a teacher, practitioner, advocate, environmentalist, mentor, client, and builder.