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• Title:Canada : modern architectures in history / Rhodri Windsor Liscombe and Michelangelo Sabatino.
  
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• Author/Creator:Liscombe, Rhodri Windsor, 1946- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Sabatino, Michelangelo, author.
  
• Published/Created:London : Reaktion Books, 2016.
  ©2016
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NA740 .L57 2016
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    

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  • Call Number: NA740 .L57 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Architecture--Canada--History.
  
• Genre/Form:History.
  
• Description:390 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
  
• Series:Modern architectures in history.
  
• Summary:"Canada is a country of massive size, of diverse geographical features and an equally diverse population all features that are magnificently reflected in its architecture. In this book, Rhodri Windsor Liscombe and Michelangelo Sabatino offer a richly informative history of Canadian architecture that celebrates and explores the country's many contributions to the spread of architectural modernity in the Americas. A distinct Canadian design attitude coalesced during the twentieth century, one informed by a liberal, hybrid, and pragmatic mindset intent less upon the dogma of architectural language and more on thinking about the formation of inclusive spaces and places. Taking a fresh perspective on design production, they map the unfolding of architectural modernity across the country, from the completion of the transcontinental railway in the late 1880s through to the present. Along the way they discuss architecture within the broader contexts of political, industrial, and sociocultural evolution; the urban-suburban expansion; and new building technologies. Examining the works of architects and firms such as ARCOP, Eric Arthur, Ernest Cormier, Brigitte Shim, and Howard Sutcliffe, this book brings Canadian architecture chronologically and thematically to life." Amazon.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-378) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781780236339
  1780236336
  
• Contents:Modernity in Canada, 1886-1914
  Modernizing the Dominion, 1914-45
  Modernism and reconstruction, 1945-67
  Modernism with a punch, 1945-67
  Questioning modernism, 1967-86
  Regenerative modernism, 1986 to the present
  Canada's modernist legacy.