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In This Great National Object, Roberta Styran and Robert Taylor - the unparalleled experts on the subject - recount the story of the canals, with particular emphasis on the experiences of the engineers, contractors, and labourers who built the inland waterways between 1824 and 1889.
Architecture in Canada
December 2011
This great national object : building the nineteeth-century Welland canals
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In This Great National Object, Roberta Styran and Robert Taylor - the unparalleled experts on the subject - recount the story of the canals, with particular emphasis on the experiences of the engineers, contractors, and labourers who built the inland waterways between 1824 and 1889.
Architecture in Canada
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This publication traces the interaction between culture and politics as reflected in Canadian architecture and the infrastructure of ordinary life, from the first contacts between indigenous peoples and European missionaries to the construction of big-box shopping centres in postmodern cities. Whether focusing on Jesuit perceptions of New France, the construction of(...)
Architecture and the Canadian fabric
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This publication traces the interaction between culture and politics as reflected in Canadian architecture and the infrastructure of ordinary life, from the first contacts between indigenous peoples and European missionaries to the construction of big-box shopping centres in postmodern cities. Whether focusing on Jesuit perceptions of New France, the construction of Toronto’s St. James Cathedral or Canada’s first Parliament, Brutalism in Canadian architecture, or the ideas of Marshall McLuhan and Arthur Erickson, these essays showcase ways of thinking about the built environment that extend beyond considerations of authorship and style to address the influence of cultural politics and insights from race and gender studies and from postcolonial and spatial theory.
Architecture in Canada
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L’architecte et designer montréalais Norman Slater (1921-2003) a été au cœur de l’effervescence qui marqua l’univers du design et de l’architecture au cours des années soixante. Bien que son activité professionnelle se soit surtout concentrée dans sa ville natale, sa carrière a connu une dimension à la fois nationale et internationale grâce à des interventions à Ottawa,(...)
Norman Slater : leçons de design / design lessons
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L’architecte et designer montréalais Norman Slater (1921-2003) a été au cœur de l’effervescence qui marqua l’univers du design et de l’architecture au cours des années soixante. Bien que son activité professionnelle se soit surtout concentrée dans sa ville natale, sa carrière a connu une dimension à la fois nationale et internationale grâce à des interventions à Ottawa, Edmonton, Vancouver, Bruxelles ou Tokyo. À Montréal ses interventions ont été rattachées à des projets d’importance et, bien qu’un grand nombre ait aujourd’hui disparu, certaines d’entre elles occupent toujours une place de premier plan dans le paysage et l’imaginaire de la ville.
Architecture in Canada
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The Allied Arts investigates the history of the complex relationship between craft and architecture by examining the intersection of these two areas in Canadian public buildings. Sandra Alfoldy explains the challenges facing the development of the field of public craft and documents the largely ignored public craft commissions of the post-war era in Canada. The book(...)
The allied arts: architecture and craft in postwar Canada
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The Allied Arts investigates the history of the complex relationship between craft and architecture by examining the intersection of these two areas in Canadian public buildings. Sandra Alfoldy explains the challenges facing the development of the field of public craft and documents the largely ignored public craft commissions of the post-war era in Canada. The book highlights the global concerns of material, scale, form, ornament, and identity shared by architects and craftspeople. It also examines the ways in which the allied arts are mediated by institutions and the fragility of craft commissions once considered an integral part of the built environment.
Architecture in Canada
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By the early twentieth century taste had become diluted, the architect had lost his heroic status, and architectural distinctions among denominations were less apparent. Drawing together the history of church building and the broader patterns of Canadian social and historical development, A Commerce of Taste presents an alternative perspective on the spread of religious(...)
A commerce of taste: church architecture in Canada, 1867-1914
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By the early twentieth century taste had become diluted, the architect had lost his heroic status, and architectural distinctions among denominations were less apparent. Drawing together the history of church building and the broader patterns of Canadian social and historical development, A Commerce of Taste presents an alternative perspective on the spread of religious monuments in Canada by looking squarely at pattern books as sources of social conflict around the issue of taste.
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Tommy Douglas was a Scottish-born prairie politician who believed in the enormous potential of co-operative action for the common good. Award-winning novelist and medical doctor Vincent Lam brings special insight to his portrait of Douglas, who grew up to become a champion boxer and a Baptist minister and then later exchanged the pulpit for a political platform. A(...)
Tommy Douglas: extraordinary Canadians
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Tommy Douglas was a Scottish-born prairie politician who believed in the enormous potential of co-operative action for the common good. Award-winning novelist and medical doctor Vincent Lam brings special insight to his portrait of Douglas, who grew up to become a champion boxer and a Baptist minister and then later exchanged the pulpit for a political platform. A powerful orator and tireless activist, he served for seventeen years as premier of Saskatchewan, where he introduced the universal health care program that would eventually be adopted across Canada . As the new leader of the New Democratic Party, he was a staunch advocate of programs aimed at improving the well-being of ordinary Canadians and a steadfast defender of civil liberties. By his example and unflagging efforts, Douglas made democratic socialism a part of mainstream Canadian political life.
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Architecture in Canada
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In this original vision of Canada, thinker John Ralston Saul argues that Canada is a Métis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by Aboriginal ideas: Egalitarianism, a proper balance between individual and group, and a penchant for negotiation over violence are all Aboriginal values that Canada absorbed. An obstacle to our progress, Saul argues, is that Canada has an(...)
A fair country : telling truths about Canada
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In this original vision of Canada, thinker John Ralston Saul argues that Canada is a Métis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by Aboriginal ideas: Egalitarianism, a proper balance between individual and group, and a penchant for negotiation over violence are all Aboriginal values that Canada absorbed. An obstacle to our progress, Saul argues, is that Canada has an increasingly ineffective elite, a colonial non-intellectual business elite that doesn't believe in Canada. It is critical that we recognize these aspects of the country in order to rethink it's future.
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Dans cet essai, Benoit Doyon-Gosselin pose un regard sur sa ville d’adoption, Moncton, « qui s’est inventée en français ». Il identifie dans son ouvrage trois Moncton interdépendants : le territoire physique, la ville telle qu’imaginée par les artistes et celle vécue par l’auteur au quotidien. « Moncton mentor : géocritique d’une ville » s’intéresse ainsi, selon une(...)
Moncton mentor : géocritique d'une ville
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Dans cet essai, Benoit Doyon-Gosselin pose un regard sur sa ville d’adoption, Moncton, « qui s’est inventée en français ». Il identifie dans son ouvrage trois Moncton interdépendants : le territoire physique, la ville telle qu’imaginée par les artistes et celle vécue par l’auteur au quotidien. « Moncton mentor : géocritique d’une ville » s’intéresse ainsi, selon une triple perspective, à la place des francophones dans cette ville bilingue devenue capitale culturelle de l’Acadie. Grâce à la géocritique, une théorie de la spatialité, Doyon-Gosselin étudie l’interaction entre les espaces et la communauté francophone et se penche sur l’impact des artistes sur le quotidien des Monctoniens. Cet essai constitue en quelque sorte le prolongement de la promenade littéraire organisée au cours des dernières années par l’auteur dans les rues de Moncton. Y sont convoquées les œuvres de maints auteurs acadiens (Gérald Leblanc, Serge Patrice Thibodeau, France Daigle, notamment), mais également celles d’auteurs ayant porté un regard sur cette ville, comme Jean-Paul Daoust.
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Describes more than 70 of Toronto's Art Deco buildings, ranging from well-known office towers and department stores to modest neighbourhood corner stores and apartment buildings. Contains more than 230 contemporary colour photographs and a selection of archival black-and-white images that have never before been published.
May 2009, Toronto
Art Deco architecture in Toronto
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Describes more than 70 of Toronto's Art Deco buildings, ranging from well-known office towers and department stores to modest neighbourhood corner stores and apartment buildings. Contains more than 230 contemporary colour photographs and a selection of archival black-and-white images that have never before been published.
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May 2009, Toronto
Montréal at the crossroads
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City residents the world over are questioning how best to deal with aging infrastructure built for the automobile, during the cheap fuel era. Montréal is no exception. This volume brings together a range of viewpoints that enriches the current discussion. With various aging highway projects due for renewal in the city, debate has been refocused on balancing the quality(...)
Architecture in Canada
June 2009
Montréal at the crossroads
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City residents the world over are questioning how best to deal with aging infrastructure built for the automobile, during the cheap fuel era. Montréal is no exception. This volume brings together a range of viewpoints that enriches the current discussion. With various aging highway projects due for renewal in the city, debate has been refocused on balancing the quality of urban neighbourhoods with the requirements of suburban traffic.
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