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“Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Québec” explores strategies for reading space and conflict in Canadian and Québécois literature and cultural performances, positing questions such as: how do these texts and performances produce and contest spatial practices? What are the roles of the nation, city, community, and individual(...)
Architecture in Canada
February 2019
Contested spaces, counter-narratives, and culture from below in Canada and Quebec
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“Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Québec” explores strategies for reading space and conflict in Canadian and Québécois literature and cultural performances, positing questions such as: how do these texts and performances produce and contest spatial practices? What are the roles of the nation, city, community, and individual subject in reproducing space, particularly in times of global hegemony and neocolonialism? And in what ways do marginalized individuals and communities represent, contest, or appropriate spaces through counter-narratives and expressions of culture from below? Focusing on discord rather than harmony and consensus, this collection disturbs the idealized space of Canadian multicultural pluralism to carry literary analysis and cultural studies into spaces often undetected and unforeseen – including flophouses and "slums," shantytowns and urban alleyways, underground spaces and peep shows, and inner-city urban parks as they are experienced by minorities and other marginalized groups. These essays are the products of sustained, high-level collaboration across French and English academic communities in Canada to facilitate theoretical exchange on the topic of space and contestation, uncover geographies of exclusion, and generate new spaces of hope in the spirit of pioneering works by Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau, Doreen Massey, David Harvey, and other prominent theorists of space.
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Un des rares témoins de la Ville de Hull d’avant 1900, le patrimoine bâti du Quartier du Musée reflète l’adaptation des divers courants architecturaux de la région de la capitale nationale du Canada : 53 des bâtiments de ce quartier datent d’avant 1910, alors que 44 d’entre eux précèdent l’incendie de 1900. Les brèves histoires des propriétaires et occupants révèlent(...)
Le quartier du musée : histoire et architecture
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Un des rares témoins de la Ville de Hull d’avant 1900, le patrimoine bâti du Quartier du Musée reflète l’adaptation des divers courants architecturaux de la région de la capitale nationale du Canada : 53 des bâtiments de ce quartier datent d’avant 1910, alors que 44 d’entre eux précèdent l’incendie de 1900. Les brèves histoires des propriétaires et occupants révèlent l’évolution de l’histoire sociale, économique et culturelle de l’Outaouais. Les activités socioéconomiques des habitants, propriétaires et locataires permettent de mieux connaître les nombreuses personnalités qui ont joué un rôle de grande importance dans l’histoire de la ville et de la région.
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Competing for excellence in architecture: editorials from the Canadian Competitions Catalogue
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A travel guide for those in search of architectural quality, this book can be browsed in many ways. Written in a clear and concise manner by about thirty authors, it features a collection of editorials from the Canadian Competitions Catalogue (CCC), a large online digital archive open to the public since 2006. The editorials explore more than sixty Canadian architecture(...)
Competing for excellence in architecture: editorials from the Canadian Competitions Catalogue
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A travel guide for those in search of architectural quality, this book can be browsed in many ways. Written in a clear and concise manner by about thirty authors, it features a collection of editorials from the Canadian Competitions Catalogue (CCC), a large online digital archive open to the public since 2006. The editorials explore more than sixty Canadian architecture competitions held in the last seventy years. Especially in recent years, both public and private institutions have organized competitions across Canada, producing hundreds of architectural, urban planning, and landscape design projects. Together these proposals, most of which remain unbuilt, constitute a fantastic treasure in our tangible and intangible common heritage. Given that competition organizers, designers, juries, and critics never operate alone, there is no doubt whatsoever that this book results from the collaboration of a myriad of people, contributing to and competing for excellence in architecture.
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Winnipeg-based architecture firm Green Blankstein Russell and Associates (GBR) opened in the slow years of the Great Depression. From this inauspicious starting point the firm would grow to become, by the 1950s and 60s, a major player on the Canadian architectural scene: the largest architectural office between Ontario and British Columbia, with seven offices in four(...)
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December 2017
Green Blankstein Russell and Associates: an architectural legacy
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Winnipeg-based architecture firm Green Blankstein Russell and Associates (GBR) opened in the slow years of the Great Depression. From this inauspicious starting point the firm would grow to become, by the 1950s and 60s, a major player on the Canadian architectural scene: the largest architectural office between Ontario and British Columbia, with seven offices in four provinces. GBR was a hub for partnership and training, and was a pioneering force in its inclusion of women and members of Canada's diverse cultural communities within the field of design. Covering a wide range of individual buildings and practitioners, this book explores the significant mark GBR made on its hometown and across the country, as well as the firm’s role as a leader in the growth of Modernist architecture in Canada.
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This publication provides an architectural and historical tour of buildings and landscapes on the University of Manitoba campus from the post-1945 period. The School of Architecture has a strong legacy of graduates who have left their design imprint both on the campus and across Canada.
University of Manitoba Modern
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This publication provides an architectural and historical tour of buildings and landscapes on the University of Manitoba campus from the post-1945 period. The School of Architecture has a strong legacy of graduates who have left their design imprint both on the campus and across Canada.
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Like many stylistic terms in architecture, the exact parameters denoted by the word “Brutalism” are difficult to precisely pin down. Brutalism is a style which was particularly prominent during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The emphasis on harsh geometric forms and unadorned rough concrete and brick have resulted in very strong feelings of hate or love for these(...)
Brutalist architecture in Winnipeg
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Like many stylistic terms in architecture, the exact parameters denoted by the word “Brutalism” are difficult to precisely pin down. Brutalism is a style which was particularly prominent during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The emphasis on harsh geometric forms and unadorned rough concrete and brick have resulted in very strong feelings of hate or love for these buildings. This tour documents a number of Brutalist style buildings in Winnipeg and explores their genesis, as well as the place of Brutalism in the history of the city.
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Endangered species
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"ENDANGERED SPECIES" investigates the notion of modern architecture as an endangered genus. Is modernism bound for extinction? The twenty-six buildings included in the book Endangered Species are threatened for demolition. The book aims to engage a debate about the survival of Canadian Modernism.
Endangered species
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"ENDANGERED SPECIES" investigates the notion of modern architecture as an endangered genus. Is modernism bound for extinction? The twenty-six buildings included in the book Endangered Species are threatened for demolition. The book aims to engage a debate about the survival of Canadian Modernism.
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''Canadian Contemporary'' is a compilation title offering comprehensive insight into Canada's residential architecture realm as it currently stands. Photographs and detailed plans highlight an array of designs from some of the country's most talented contemporary architects. Each project is a unique example of the different ways each firm/architect interprets and caters(...)
Canadian contemporary: the northern home
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''Canadian Contemporary'' is a compilation title offering comprehensive insight into Canada's residential architecture realm as it currently stands. Photographs and detailed plans highlight an array of designs from some of the country's most talented contemporary architects. Each project is a unique example of the different ways each firm/architect interprets and caters to the types of lifestyles that inhabit their work. Adaptable spaces and savvy design solutions reflect a strong focus of the integration of modern day life into Canadian homes. With an introduction by acclaimed Professor or Architecture, Avi Friedman, this book presents the latest trends in Canadian living and residential home design.
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Life in the countryside, often perceived as either idyllic or depleted, has long been misrepresented. Challenging the stereotypes and myths that surround the idea of rurality, "Our Rural Selves" interrogates and represents individual and collective memories of childhood in rural landscapes and small towns. Drawing on visual artifacts whose origins range from the early(...)
Our rural selves: memory and the visual in Canadian childhoods
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Life in the countryside, often perceived as either idyllic or depleted, has long been misrepresented. Challenging the stereotypes and myths that surround the idea of rurality, "Our Rural Selves" interrogates and represents individual and collective memories of childhood in rural landscapes and small towns. Drawing on visual artifacts whose origins range from the early twentieth century to today, such as photographs, films, objects, picture books, and digital games, contributors offer readings of childhood that are geographically, ethnically, and culturally diverse. They examine the memories of Indigenous children, the experiences of back-to-the-land youth, and boom-or-bust childhoods within the petroleum, farming, and fishing industries. Illustrating often neglected and overlooked aspects of adolescence, this collection suggests new ways of studying social connectedness and collective futures. "Our Rural Selves" explores representation, imagination, and what it means to grow up rural in Canada.
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"College street -Toronto's renaissance strip" charts the history of a community that is a microcosm of the larger forces that created the diverse culture of today's Canada. Through immigration, College Street has evolved as Canada has evolved and each generation has left its distinctive mark. There were the early Irish immigrants who fled famine in the old country and(...)
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June 2006, Toronto
College street : little Italy : Toronto's renaissance strip
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"College street -Toronto's renaissance strip" charts the history of a community that is a microcosm of the larger forces that created the diverse culture of today's Canada. Through immigration, College Street has evolved as Canada has evolved and each generation has left its distinctive mark. There were the early Irish immigrants who fled famine in the old country and settled in the area that is now known as Little Italy. There was the Jewish community that began to develop the outdoor market we now know as Kensington. Eventually the Italians came to dominate and give Little Italy its name, though in the 70s the Portuguese made their own indelible impression on the street and continue to be a powerful presence. With a preface by Joe Pantalone and essays by the editors and Giuliana Colalillo; Beatriz Hausner; Royson James; Rocco Maragna; Domingos Marques & Manuela Marujo; Richard Menkis & Harold Troper; Gabrielle Scardellato.
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