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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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février 2005, Montreal
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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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février 2005, Montréal
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Nova Scotia has a rich heritage of houses dating from the 1700s. Here, the best examples of every important house style over the past 250 years are brought together in full colour. The authors have travelled to all parts of the province to select the finest examples of architectural heritage. Most of these buildings are accessible to the public and some have been(...)
Architecture du Canada
octobre 2003, Halifax
Heritage houses of Nova Scotia
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Nova Scotia has a rich heritage of houses dating from the 1700s. Here, the best examples of every important house style over the past 250 years are brought together in full colour. The authors have travelled to all parts of the province to select the finest examples of architectural heritage. Most of these buildings are accessible to the public and some have been carefully restored, allowing you to revisit the way people lived in Nova Scotia’s past. The authors detail how each house style reached Nova Scotia, identifying not only characteristic features but variants unique to the province. They explain how new technologies have affected architectural style, and how the most available building material — wood — was used for houses designed to be constructed of brick, stone and mortar.
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This Winnipeg Art Gallery exhibition showcased the work of 10 contemporary designers of household objects that make our lives easier, more enjoyable, and more interesting. From Karim Rashid’s "Garbino" wastebaskets to Kerr & Company’s translucent dish rack, you’ll recognize many of these items. The essays discuss Canadian style and design, assess its merits, and(...)
Habitat : Canadian design now / le point sur le design canadien
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This Winnipeg Art Gallery exhibition showcased the work of 10 contemporary designers of household objects that make our lives easier, more enjoyable, and more interesting. From Karim Rashid’s "Garbino" wastebaskets to Kerr & Company’s translucent dish rack, you’ll recognize many of these items. The essays discuss Canadian style and design, assess its merits, and distinguish between art and craft, design and style.
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This lavishly illustrated book documents 175 years of the Sharon Temple’s intriguing life. Designed with extraordinary flair by noted author, architectural historian and book designer Mark Fram, it brims with rarely seen contemporary and archival images of the Temple. Lush, colour photography and previously unpublished archival information complement the story of the(...)
Rebuilding Hope : The Sharon Temple after 175 years
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This lavishly illustrated book documents 175 years of the Sharon Temple’s intriguing life. Designed with extraordinary flair by noted author, architectural historian and book designer Mark Fram, it brims with rarely seen contemporary and archival images of the Temple. Lush, colour photography and previously unpublished archival information complement the story of the Sharon Temple ¯ much of it told in the original voices of the Children of Peace.
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Calgary is a young city- it has gone from pioneer beginnings to modernity in little over a century, and is well known for its dynamic growth. The Calgary Project examines the forces that produced its urban structure, and the relationship to the quality of urban life, with the intention of helping to guide the development of this prairie metropolis into the twenty-first century.
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octobre 2006, Calgary
Calgary project
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Calgary is a young city- it has gone from pioneer beginnings to modernity in little over a century, and is well known for its dynamic growth. The Calgary Project examines the forces that produced its urban structure, and the relationship to the quality of urban life, with the intention of helping to guide the development of this prairie metropolis into the twenty-first century.
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Artist, educator and architectural innovator —Bertram Charles (B.C.) Binning was all of these. From the early 1930s through the mid-1970s, Binning was at the forefront of West Coast modern art, architecture and arts education. He is perhaps best known for the groundbreaking design of his Modernist home, which has been recognized by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board(...)
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avril 2006, Vancouver, Toronto
B.C. Binning
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Artist, educator and architectural innovator —Bertram Charles (B.C.) Binning was all of these. From the early 1930s through the mid-1970s, Binning was at the forefront of West Coast modern art, architecture and arts education. He is perhaps best known for the groundbreaking design of his Modernist home, which has been recognized by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. Built in 1940, the Binning residence captures the spirit of early Modernism in Canada. Binning is equally well known for his lively line drawings and his geometric, non-figurative abstract paintings that often reflect his fascination with boats and maritime activity.
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Printed in two colors throughout and richly illustrated with more than six hundred photographs and duotones of these architects’ most important works, Building the West tells the stories, discovers the hopes and aspirations, and celebrates the successes and accomplishments of the early architects of British Columbia as it illustrates their lives and careers, many of which(...)
Building the west : The early architects of British Columbia
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Printed in two colors throughout and richly illustrated with more than six hundred photographs and duotones of these architects’ most important works, Building the West tells the stories, discovers the hopes and aspirations, and celebrates the successes and accomplishments of the early architects of British Columbia as it illustrates their lives and careers, many of which extended along the North American west coast from California to Alaska. Starting before the first flood of colonists in the gold rush of 1858, it follows the lives of almost four hundred individuals first drawn to British Columbia by the opportunities of frontier settlement.
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septembre 2007, Vancouver
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After World War II, concrete became increasingly popular as a building medium around the world. Brutalism, the fashion for plain, heavy design, reigned. Toronto was particularly affected. The city has concrete buildings of all stripes – international landmarks, metropolitan infrastructure and even the single family home. Hundreds of these structures were built,(...)
Architecture du Canada
novembre 2007, Toronto
Concrete Toronto : a guidebook to concrete architecture from the fifties to the seventies
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After World War II, concrete became increasingly popular as a building medium around the world. Brutalism, the fashion for plain, heavy design, reigned. Toronto was particularly affected. The city has concrete buildings of all stripes – international landmarks, metropolitan infrastructure and even the single family home. Hundreds of these structures were built, including Viljo Revell’s groundbreaking New City Hall, John Andrew’s seminal Scarborough College and the record-smashing CN Tower. Toronto is a city cast in concrete. However, as architectural fashion has shifted from postmodernism to the glass-and-steel neomodernism of today, these concrete structures have been ignored, misunderstood and, in some cases, demolished. Concrete Toronto acts as a guide to the city’s extensive concrete heritage. A diverse group of experts has been assembled to re-examine the uniqueness and value of these buildings. Included are the insights of many of the original concrete architects, university faculty, local practitioners, journalists and industry experts. Together they explore the past and future of Toronto’s concrete buildings. Included is a wealth of new and archival photos, drawings, interviews, articles, as well as case studies of Toronto’s major concrete architecture.
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