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Thirty or so years ago, architecture changed. A strong desire to explore the artistic and humanistic side of the practice pushed it onto paper and into installations; "paper architecture" became the locus for the avantgarde. In recognition of this, the Canada Council for the Arts established the Prix de Rome in Architecture. During the years the Prix de Rome was in(...)
Le Prix de Rome en architecture : une retrospective / a retrospective
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Thirty or so years ago, architecture changed. A strong desire to explore the artistic and humanistic side of the practice pushed it onto paper and into installations; "paper architecture" became the locus for the avantgarde. In recognition of this, the Canada Council for the Arts established the Prix de Rome in Architecture. During the years the Prix de Rome was in place, from 1987 to 2003, some of Canada’s most important architects were given the opportunity to explore a more theoretical and experimental practice. Their projects, however, were not well disseminated and remain unknown to most of the architectural community. By reproducing the work of each of the Prix de Rome laureates, this book hopes to introduce this important work to a broader artistic community. To contextualize the work and its influence on a generation of architects, each of the documented projects also includes an exploratory text by the laureate who created it and traces the trajectory of that laureate’s career since that time. Critical essays by Gary Michael Dault, Daniel M. Millette and Marco Polo consider the interface between art and architecture that the Prix de Rome has encouraged and explore the issues, ideas and representational methods from contemporary art that influence speculative architectural practice. Laureates include John Shnier, Jacques Rousseau, Sophie Charlebois, Hal Ingberg, Dereck Revington, John McMinn, Hal Ingberg, Anthony Robins, Philip Beesley, Philippe Lupien, Pierre Thibault, Atelier Big City, Peter Yeadon, Jason King and George Yu, Atelier In Situ, and Andrew King. Each project is fully documented with extensive colour photographs and illustrations, and the accompanying text appears in both English and French.
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February 2007, Toronto
Architecture in Canada
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This guide offers a comprehensive overview of all 10 accredited schools of architecture in Canada. Learn about specific programmes offered, including professionsl and post-professional degrees. Dedicated chapters for each school provide insight into areas such as academic philosophy, curriculum, faculty specialization, student work, and research innovation. Published(...)
Guide to Canadian graduate schools of architecture / Guide des programmes canadiens de deuxième cycle en architecture
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This guide offers a comprehensive overview of all 10 accredited schools of architecture in Canada. Learn about specific programmes offered, including professionsl and post-professional degrees. Dedicated chapters for each school provide insight into areas such as academic philosophy, curriculum, faculty specialization, student work, and research innovation. Published results from a nation-wide survey of current graduate students provides a unique perspective on school culture. / Ce guide vous offre une description complète des 10 écoles d'architecture accréditées du Canada. Vous saurez quelles sont les particularités des programmes professionnels et post-professionnels de chacune d'entre elles. Les chapitres consacrés aux écoles fournissent des renseignements sur les éléments suivants : la philosophie de l'école, les programmes de formation, les spécialisations du corps professoral, le travail étudiant, et la recherche et l'innovation. Les résultats d'un sondage réalisé auprès des étudiants de deuxième cycle à travers le Canada vous donneront une perspective unique sur la culture de chaque école.
Architecture in Canada
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Based on 260 vintage images and extensive original research, Inside Toronto: Urban Interiors 1880s to1920s is the first book to investigate the complex, interior life of a single city — the ordinary and extraordinary places where Torontonians lived, worked, shopped, and performed the rituals of daily life. Interior photographs are rare. Not many were taken; and fewer have(...)
Inside Toronto : urban interiors 1880s to 1920
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Based on 260 vintage images and extensive original research, Inside Toronto: Urban Interiors 1880s to1920s is the first book to investigate the complex, interior life of a single city — the ordinary and extraordinary places where Torontonians lived, worked, shopped, and performed the rituals of daily life. Interior photographs are rare. Not many were taken; and fewer have survived. Fortunately, Toronto's archival resources, supplemented by private and public collections elsewhere, are extensive enough to support an investigation of these interior spaces.Many images are glorious, all are informative. Text illuminates the images and provides historical background.
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Vancouver matters
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While many books have presented Vancouver as an accomplishment - as if it is finished - this book attempts to represent both its appeal and its flaws. Through illustration, photography, and interpretation, this book examines Vancouver and offers ideas and observations from artists, architects, academics, but most significantly, residents of the city.
Architecture in Canada
December 2008, Vancouver
Vancouver matters
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While many books have presented Vancouver as an accomplishment - as if it is finished - this book attempts to represent both its appeal and its flaws. Through illustration, photography, and interpretation, this book examines Vancouver and offers ideas and observations from artists, architects, academics, but most significantly, residents of the city.
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Audio-CD, playtime 50 minutes, 35 tracks. Including 8-pages booklet with drawings of the recorder, photos, and texts by Oswald Wiener and Jeremy Roht. For these field recordings of the nightly chanting of sled dogs from the Yukon-territory, Oswald Wiener did build a recorder by himself, which is, also at extreme outside temperatures, reacting to acoustic signals: "The(...)
Architecture in Canada
January 2001, Köln
Animal music / tiermusik: team of Jeremy Roht, west dawson, yukon-territory
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Audio-CD, playtime 50 minutes, 35 tracks. Including 8-pages booklet with drawings of the recorder, photos, and texts by Oswald Wiener and Jeremy Roht. For these field recordings of the nightly chanting of sled dogs from the Yukon-territory, Oswald Wiener did build a recorder by himself, which is, also at extreme outside temperatures, reacting to acoustic signals: "The peculiar enjoyability of this music, which - in contrast to much contemporary human music - stands the test of repeated listenings, forces one to the conclusion that, to the dogs at least, an abstract aesthetic experience constitutes the 'figure' of their play." (Oswald Wiener)
Architecture in Canada
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John M. Lyle (18721945) was an anomaly among architects: a Beaux-Arts classicist who nevertheless found much inspiration in modernism, allowing his own traditionalist practice to be affected in form and detail by a brave new emphasis on minimalism and indigenous influence. With ornamentation showcasing local flora and fauna and a turn to native landscape for inspiration,(...)
A progressive traditionalist: John M. Lyle, architect
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John M. Lyle (18721945) was an anomaly among architects: a Beaux-Arts classicist who nevertheless found much inspiration in modernism, allowing his own traditionalist practice to be affected in form and detail by a brave new emphasis on minimalism and indigenous influence. With ornamentation showcasing local flora and fauna and a turn to native landscape for inspiration, his innumerable buildings contributed to a burgeoning nationalism in the field. A Progressive Traditionalist traces this aesthetic trajectory, documenting Lyles training at Yale and in Paris, his early career in New York and his later success in Toronto, including countless legendary banks and residences and the iconic Union Station. Part biography and part architectural history, and extensively illustrated with colour photographs and drawings throughout, this book is the first to examine in depth the important contributions of one of the early twentieth centurys foremost architects.
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Cities generate a disproportionate amount of Canada’s wealth and are home to the majority of the population, yet they have no means to control their own destinies. Alan Broadbent suggests that the problem is a slavish devotion to a constitutional structure and a federal government that is ignorant of how crucial large cities are to our national prosperity and heritage.
Urban nation : why we need to give power back to the cities to make Canada strong
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Cities generate a disproportionate amount of Canada’s wealth and are home to the majority of the population, yet they have no means to control their own destinies. Alan Broadbent suggests that the problem is a slavish devotion to a constitutional structure and a federal government that is ignorant of how crucial large cities are to our national prosperity and heritage.
Architecture in Canada
Greater Vancouver greenguide
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Compiled by the Design Centre for Sustainability at UBC, the"GreenGuide" brings together in one place the green buildings, green neighbourhoods, green infrastructure, open spaces, and social, economic, and environmental programs that embody built examples of urban sustainability in Greater Vancouver. The goal of the GreenGuide is to help Greater Vancouver celebrate the(...)
Greater Vancouver greenguide
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Compiled by the Design Centre for Sustainability at UBC, the"GreenGuide" brings together in one place the green buildings, green neighbourhoods, green infrastructure, open spaces, and social, economic, and environmental programs that embody built examples of urban sustainability in Greater Vancouver. The goal of the GreenGuide is to help Greater Vancouver celebrate the initiatives that are underway, and share these lessons as we continue to turn ideas into action. The GreenGuide consist of a highly graphical, pocket-sized guidebook, accompanied by a large-scale foldable map that allows users to locate projects easily. It documents and highlights key sustainability features of 111 projects, provides suggested tours, and tells our region’s sustainability story.
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Subconscious city
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"Subsconscious city" examines the often hidden underpinnings of Winnipeg - its myths, its vacant lots, its forgotten communities, its hidden gems - and reveals a complicated picture of place. Created as a companion to the contemporary art exhibition of the same name curated by Shawna Dempsey and Lori Millan, this publication delves into the nature of our urban social and(...)
Architecture in Canada
March 2008, Winnipeg
Subconscious city
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"Subsconscious city" examines the often hidden underpinnings of Winnipeg - its myths, its vacant lots, its forgotten communities, its hidden gems - and reveals a complicated picture of place. Created as a companion to the contemporary art exhibition of the same name curated by Shawna Dempsey and Lori Millan, this publication delves into the nature of our urban social and physical landscape, and its power to shape identity. This volume includes poetry and lyrics by John K. Samson, new fiction by Guy Maddin, creative meditations by Jeanne Randolph and Marvin Francis, and essays by Sigrid Dahle, Molly Johnson and Richard Milgrom, Claudine Majzels, and Dempsey and Millan, ranging in topics from the benefits of zero growth to the Aboriginal urban experience. Artworks of KC Adams, Keith Berens, Simon Hughes' Bonnie Marin, Diana Thorneycroft and many others.
Architecture in Canada
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The practice of comparison is implicit in every act of imagining, representing, and studying urban experience. "Urban enigmas" contributes to recent interdisciplinary interest in cities by introducing comparison as a key methodology for urban cultural analysis. Contributors, part of the collaborative research project "The Culture of Cities : Montreal, Toronto, Dublin,(...)
Architecture in Canada
March 2007, Montréal, Kingston, London, Ithaca
Urban enigmas : Montréal, Toronto, and the problem of comparing cities
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The practice of comparison is implicit in every act of imagining, representing, and studying urban experience. "Urban enigmas" contributes to recent interdisciplinary interest in cities by introducing comparison as a key methodology for urban cultural analysis. Contributors, part of the collaborative research project "The Culture of Cities : Montreal, Toronto, Dublin, and Berlin", address theoretical and methodological aspects of comparison, while case-studies examine the mutually constituted identities of Montreal and Toronto through examples of travel writing, public art, film festivals, theatrical performances, diasporic communities, ethnic festivals, and urban media. Comparison is shown to be not only something performed by experts but a deeply embedded, everyday social practice that contributes to the mutable identities of cities. "Urban enigmas" demonstrates that the accumulation of urban actions, encounters, experiences, and relationships create distinctive patterns that make it possible to recognize the particularity of cities. Contributors include Alan Blum (York), Kieran Bonner (St. Jerome's), Jenny Burman (McGill), Jean-François Côté (Université du Québec à Montréal), Michael Darroch (York), Nicholas DeMaria Harney (Western Australia), Kevin Dowler (York & Toronto), Dipti Gupta (Dawson College), Janine Marchessault (York), Jean-François Morissette (Université du Québec à Montréal), and Greg Nielsen (Concordia).
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