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Context and content: The memoir of a fortunate architect

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In this personal account of A.J. Diamond’s life and work, he shares how he came to be the founder of the leading architecture firm Diamond Schmitt, one of Canada’s most successful architecture companies. He also explains his principles of design, which at their core are about making a positive impact in the world, considering the needs of the content, client, and context. Diamond gives insight into his design principles in relation to some of his most notable projects, including the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto, la Maison symphonique de Montréal, the Mariinsky II Theatre in Saint Petersburg. Diamond also chronicles his family ancestry, his childhood in South Africa, from his birth in his grandfather’s study in the small provincial town of Piet Retief on the borders of Eswatini (Swaziland) and Mozambique, to his university days at the University of Cape Town and Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania. His memoir traces his immigration to the U.S. and, eventually, Canada as well as his growing architectural practice in Toronto, where he focused on the issues facing his chosen city.

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Carscadden Thrift: selected works

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Carscadden Thrift is structured in the spirit of the translation from drawing (speculation) to material (actual). Photographs document the messy realities of construction and are referenced to select drawings. The analogy to a set of contract documents is obvious but not superficial. It requires readers to examine both in order to understand the nature of a project -- projects that taken collectively describe the culture of the studio and the firm's attempts to understand questions posited by the constraints of scale, site and schedule.

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Twenty + change 03 : emerging Canadian design practices

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This new publication is the third in a series profiling emerging design practices from across Canada in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. Projects by nineteen Canadian designers engage the public realm in meaningful ways, investigate new ideas in collective housing and urban infill, and explore prefabrication and regional domestic vernaculars. The book includes profiles of emerging firms, project descriptions, full color images and essays by noted architectural critics, educators, and practitioners.

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Five North American architects : an anthology

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This publication brings together five architectural practices that, while all distinct, share a particular sensibility for the impact of craftsmanship and climate on the generation of form, as well as a concern for the expressive tactility of material and the effect of light on the articulation of structure. Designed with detail, the book offers an indepth survey of recent work by Steven Holl (New York), Rick Joy (Tucson), John and Patricia Patkau (Vancouver), Stanley Saitowitz (San Francisco), and Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe (Toronto). The regional specificity of the work is considered against a larger North American context, allowing one to assess the practice of its architecture today.

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Full spectrum : the architecture of Jeremy Sturgess

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Governor-General award winning architect Jeremy Sturgess recently celebrated thirty years in practice in Calgary, where he has been based his whole career. During that time, Sturgess has made a major contribution to transforming the architectural face of the city, from individual houses to large-scale public projects such as the Calgary Water Centre, the Grand Theatre, and Calgarys most recent downtown LRT stations. This publication provides a comprehensive and multifaceted examination of Sturgesss architecture and urban design, and assesses his contribution to Canadian architecture generally and Calgary architecture in particular. Editor Geoffrey Simmins has gathered perspectives from a number of individuals with whom Sturgess has enjoyed long-term professional relationships - an artist, an urban designer, an architect colleague, an architectural critic, and a journalist. Along with reflections on Sturgesss personality, philosophy, and creative growth, these contributors provide in-depth discussions of a number of Sturgesss most celebrated projects. Simmins himself has drawn on Sturgesss papers and several personal interviews to craft an insightful introduction to the volume. Illustrated with architectural line drawings and with photos by photographer Robert Lemermeyer.

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Occasional work and seven walks from the Office for Soft Architecture

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This book collects the rococo prose of Lisa Robertson, the ambulatory Office for Soft Architecture. There are essays on Vancouver fountains, the syntax of the suburban home, Value Village, the joy of synthetics, scaffolding and the persistence of the Himalayan blackberry. There are also seven Walks, tours of Vancouver sites – poetic dioramas, really, and more material than cement could ever be.

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Peter Dickinson

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Every aspect of Dickinson's life was large, from his height to his wife - a former model - from his ambition to his social and professional standing. England could not contain him. He needed a larger stage and that is what he found here. The architecture he set into motion was like him: big, fresh, and bold. It was not only modern, it had an audacious individualistic style that twisted and turned in new and magnificent ways. This is the first major book on the Canadian architect Peter Dickinson.

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Studioeast 2009

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A student journal of work from the architecture program at Dalhousie University.

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Éric Gauthier vu par/by Denis Bilodeau : architecture, trame/grid, index

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À des kilomètres du vanity-show qui se pratique dans la profession, Éric Gauthier vu par Denis Bilodeau : Architecture, trame, index, c’est beaucoup plus qu’un simple survol, livré au public projet par projet, en ordre prévisible. Ici, le chercheur et l’architecte, accomplissant là un patient travail intellectuel et analytique, ont fouillé ensemble la matière pour l’organiser différemment, sur le principe d’un index conçu par le commissaire.

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Shim Sutcliffe : the passage of time

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"We have always exerimented on ourselves. Our own house in Toronto and the Harrison Island Camp at Georgian Bay are personal experiments. The Laneway House, completed in 1993, is an urban manifesto."