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The two World Wars had a tremendous impact in transforming Canada into a confident and robust industrial nation. With that came a building boom and an artistic explosion that gave young entrepreneurs, designers, artists and architects opportunities to dream big, bold and modern. MEAN CITY celebrates this great boom in architecture and industrial design (1945-1975),(...)
Architecture in Canada
March 2005, Toronto
Mean city : from architecture to design : how Toronto went boom !
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The two World Wars had a tremendous impact in transforming Canada into a confident and robust industrial nation. With that came a building boom and an artistic explosion that gave young entrepreneurs, designers, artists and architects opportunities to dream big, bold and modern. MEAN CITY celebrates this great boom in architecture and industrial design (1945-1975), with emphasis on the work of John B. Parkin Associates: works that include the Sun Life Building, Yonge Subway and Terminal One at the Toronto International Airport. Also, MEAN CITY takes a closer look at the CNE's distinctive cluster of modern buildings. Beginning in 1947 with the new Grandstand Stadium and culminating in the Better Living Centre in 1962, young architects like Richard Fisher, George Robb and Peter Dickinson were given the opportunity to execute '50s fantastic and futuristic buildings.
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March 2005, Toronto
Architecture in Canada
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The legacy of Canadian architecture grows out of the landscape. Up north, architecture rarely competes with the nature. In Canada, there is an intimacy between architecture and landscape. Original analysis and insights are drawn from the author's extensive experience as national architecture critic and her in-depth interviews with numerous Canadian architects including(...)
Up north : where Canada's architecture meets the land
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The legacy of Canadian architecture grows out of the landscape. Up north, architecture rarely competes with the nature. In Canada, there is an intimacy between architecture and landscape. Original analysis and insights are drawn from the author's extensive experience as national architecture critic and her in-depth interviews with numerous Canadian architects including Frank Gehry, Eberhard Zeidler, Raymond Moriyama, Bruce Kuwabara, the Patkaus and Shim-Sutcliffe Architects.
Architecture in Canada
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The story behind Vancouver’s emerging urban form: the buildings, public spaces, extraordinary landscapes and cultural values that have turned the city into the poster-child of North American urbanism. Located at the edge of a continent and at the corresponding edge of national public consciousness, Vancouver has developed in unique and unanticipated ways. It is now(...)
Architecture in Canada
April 2005, Vancouver
Dream city : Vancouver and the global imagination
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The story behind Vancouver’s emerging urban form: the buildings, public spaces, extraordinary landscapes and cultural values that have turned the city into the poster-child of North American urbanism. Located at the edge of a continent and at the corresponding edge of national public consciousness, Vancouver has developed in unique and unanticipated ways. It is now emerging as an experiment in contemporary city-making, with international interest in Vancouver as a model of post-industrial urbanism increasing exponentially. Lance Berelowitz explores the links between the city’s seductive natural setting, its turbulent political history and changing civic values, and its planning and design culture. He also makes the startling case that Vancouver is to Canada’s imagination what Los Angeles is to the American — a mythologized place of endless possibilities, while being grounded in an altogether more limited set of socio-economic and environmental limitations. Dream City is richly illustrated with both historical and contemporary photographs of many significant buildings and public spaces, as well as specially commissioned maps that reveal the underlying patterns of growth and change of Canada’s youngest metropolis.
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Lavoie médite sur la relation entre un acte final, soit la pose du dernier crampon du Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique traversant le pays d'est en ouest en 1885 et, en même temps, fondateur puisqu'il permettait de donner réalité à l'idée même de "pays". Cet évènement historique est revisité afin d'y inclure le rôle de tout gouvernement quant à l'établissement du concept(...)
Images premières : mutations d'une icône nationale / Primal images : transmutations of a national icon
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Lavoie médite sur la relation entre un acte final, soit la pose du dernier crampon du Chemin de fer Canadien Pacifique traversant le pays d'est en ouest en 1885 et, en même temps, fondateur puisqu'il permettait de donner réalité à l'idée même de "pays". Cet évènement historique est revisité afin d'y inclure le rôle de tout gouvernement quant à l'établissement du concept de "la naissance de la nation". Illustrées avec des photographies, des dessins et des affiches d'époque, cette publication est le volet canadien de l'exposition du Mois de la Photo à Paris 2004 et accompagnera cette même exposition qui sera présentée au Musée McCord dans le cadre du Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2005. En français et anglais. -- This publication accompanies exhibitions in two international photography bienniales. Le Mois de la Photo à Paris 2004 and Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2005. The primal image referred to is the photograph recording the completion of Canada's national railway in 1885: "the driving of the last spike". Supported by a wide variety of historical and contemporary documentation, Lavoie shows how this apparently straightforward historical record was used to create the notion of Canada. By looking at the countless reproductions, copies and caricatures of this primal image he dissects the deliberate and ideological construction of nationhood. Profusely illustrated with photographs, film stills, posters and political cartoons from over 100 years. Produced in collaboration with the McCord Museum. In English and French.
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January 2005, Paris
Architecture in Canada
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Le monde des arts et la société en général se souviennent encore de cette décennie que fut les années soixante au Canada. Que se soit le mélange révolutionnaire et hautement créatif des divers moyens d'expression ou des multiples manifestations artistiques, les années soixante ont été une pierre angulaire de l'art et ont donné naissance au néo-dadaïste, pop art et(...)
Architecture in Canada
January 2005, Ottawa
Les années soixante au Canada
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Le monde des arts et la société en général se souviennent encore de cette décennie que fut les années soixante au Canada. Que se soit le mélange révolutionnaire et hautement créatif des divers moyens d'expression ou des multiples manifestations artistiques, les années soixante ont été une pierre angulaire de l'art et ont donné naissance au néo-dadaïste, pop art et minimalisme, pour ne nommer quelques nouveaux courants de l'époque. Cette publication rappelle les expressions artistiques qui abondaient au Canada durant cette décennie : les expériences alliant art et technologie, l'influence de puissants médias de masse, toiles modernistes de pointe, les débuts de l'art conceptuel et photographique, ainsi que les premières créations de films et vidéos expérimentaux.
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January 2005, Ottawa
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The Sixties in Canada
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The sixties were a decade of questioning and experimentation, of testing the limits and pushing the boundaries of artistic forms. This frenzy of activity resulted in diverse artistic manifestations, including innovations in photography, a medium that was redefined during this period from a simple practical tool to a recognized art form. This comprehensive catalogue(...)
Architecture in Canada
January 2005, Ottawa
The Sixties in Canada
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The sixties were a decade of questioning and experimentation, of testing the limits and pushing the boundaries of artistic forms. This frenzy of activity resulted in diverse artistic manifestations, including innovations in photography, a medium that was redefined during this period from a simple practical tool to a recognized art form. This comprehensive catalogue accompanies the exhibition, “The Sixties: Photography in Question” held at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.
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January 2005, Ottawa
Architecture in Canada
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Those familiar with Nova Scotia understand the austere beauty of this Canadian landscape, with its wide open skies and rugged terrain pushing up against the Atlantic. MacKay-Lyons's work responds to this unique topography and to the vernacular building traditions that define its communities. His houses, commercial buildings, and public projects combine regional forms with(...)
Plain Modern : the architecture of Brian MacKay-Lyons
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Those familiar with Nova Scotia understand the austere beauty of this Canadian landscape, with its wide open skies and rugged terrain pushing up against the Atlantic. MacKay-Lyons's work responds to this unique topography and to the vernacular building traditions that define its communities. His houses, commercial buildings, and public projects combine regional forms with local materials, technologies, and building practices to create works that are linked to their environments right down to their DNA. Peaked gables, shed roofs, and sliding doors are inspired by local barn types; corrugated metal cladding comes from the buildings used by the area's fishing industry; structural wooden frames are based on local ship-building traditions. These elements communicate a sense of place that is sophisticated, accessible, and free of sentimentality. Novelist and historian Malcolm Quantrill weaves together an intimate portrait of MacKay-Lyons and his work, elucidating the "peculiar regionality" of his subject's architecture.
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The red maple leaf is the quintessential symbol of Canada and the flag that popularized it throughout the world was designed in the 1960s as a result of government legislation aimed at creating a vital, new Canadian national identity through objects, events, and building projects. Made in Canada looks at the development of Canadian craft, design, and culture through(...)
Made in Canada : craft and design in the sixties
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The red maple leaf is the quintessential symbol of Canada and the flag that popularized it throughout the world was designed in the 1960s as a result of government legislation aimed at creating a vital, new Canadian national identity through objects, events, and building projects. Made in Canada looks at the development of Canadian craft, design, and culture through ambitious government programs meant to reinforce the country's identity as a modern, sophisticated, and autonomous nation. As well, it documents the demise of a singular notion of modern life and its replacement with a focus on personal identity and consumerism. Changes in the 1960s included the building of modern airports, first space satellite, and new national symbols such as the maple leaf flag. Canadians embraced this heightened sense of individuality and demanded products that were equally individual. As a result pop culture objects sat on cool furniture influenced by Scandinavian modernism while handmade crafts reflected a growing concern with environmental issues. Expo 67 was the turning point - one final expression of optimism before Canada was rocked by social change and varied struggles for identity. Made in Canada examines national dreams and expressions of individuality in thoughtful and illuminating essays. Contributors include Sandra Alfoldy (NSCAD University), Paul Bourassa (Musée des beaux-arts de Québec), Brent Cordner (designer and educator, Toronto), Douglas Coupland (artist and author, Vancouver), Bernard Flaman (Government of Saskatchewan), Rachel Gotlieb (freelance curator and writer, Toronto), Michael Large (Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning), and Michael Prokopow (Design Exchange).
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February 2005, Montreal
Architecture in Canada
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De Douglas Coupland à Paul Bourassa, des artistes, conservateurs et historiens de I'art renommés jettent un regard sur le design et I'identité canadienne des années soixante.
Fabriqué au Canada : métiers d'art et design dans les années soixante
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De Douglas Coupland à Paul Bourassa, des artistes, conservateurs et historiens de I'art renommés jettent un regard sur le design et I'identité canadienne des années soixante.
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February 2005, Montréal
Architecture in Canada
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On y retrouvera des réalisations des architectes suivants: A.J. Diamond, Donald Schmitt and Company, Affleck + De la Riva, Blue Sky, Bosses Design, Brian MacKay-Lyons, Gauthier Daoust Lestage, Ian MacDonald, Hal Ingberg et Mark Poddubiuk, Jacques Rousseau, Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg, Marc-André Tellier, Natale et Scott, Patkau Architects, Peter Cardiew, Pierre(...)
Maisons-lieux : architecture contemporaine au Canada - Houses-places : contemporary Canadian architecture
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On y retrouvera des réalisations des architectes suivants: A.J. Diamond, Donald Schmitt and Company, Affleck + De la Riva, Blue Sky, Bosses Design, Brian MacKay-Lyons, Gauthier Daoust Lestage, Ian MacDonald, Hal Ingberg et Mark Poddubiuk, Jacques Rousseau, Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg, Marc-André Tellier, Natale et Scott, Patkau Architects, Peter Cardiew, Pierre Thibault, Shim-Sutcliffe ainsi que Saucier + Perrotte.
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