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    Building Canada; an architectural history of Canadian life.

    • Title:Building Canada; an architectural history of Canadian life.
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    • Author/Creator:Gowans, Alan, 1923-
    • Published/Created:Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1966.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Architecture--Canada--History.
    • Edition:[Rev. and enl. ed.].
    • Description:xx, 412 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
    • Additional formats:Also issued online.
    • Notes:First ed. 1958, under title: Looking at architecture in Canada.
      Includes bibliographical references.
    • Contents:Pioneer backgrounds. Hut and Cabin: Stone- and iron-age building in the wilderness
      Fort and cottage: Folk building on the tamed frontier
      New France. The Medieval tradition of New France
      The Baroque tradition of New France
      The Québecois tradition: Creation of a Canadian tradition : Medieval and Baroque ; Traditions of craftsmanship : Baroque forms and Medieval practice ; The idea of beauty ; The Quebecois Church as cultural expansion
      British North America. Phases and variants of the classical tradition in Canada
      The eighteenth-century classical tradition in Canada: The American classical vernacular ; Classical vernacular in Quebec ; Classical climax : the church architecture of Thomas Ballairge ; Epilogue : the later classical tradition in Quebec
      The nineteenth-century classical revivals in Canadian architecture: American classical revival architecture in Canada ; British colonial classicism
      The Victorian tradition: Three phases of Victorian architecture ; Early Victorian architecture in Canada ; Gothic revivals as early Victorian expression ; The Italianate styles
      From Confederation to the Second World War, 1867-1939. High Victorian architecture in Canada: Forms and spirit of picturesque eclecticism ; Prosperity and plenty : picturesque eclecticism as cultural expression
      Late Victorian architecture in Canada: Diverse directions : the late Victorian problem ; Pomp and circumstance : late Victorian academic architecture as cultural expression
      Development of a twentieth-century tradition: Architecture in an anti-Victorian mood
      Since 1945 : the new tradition of Canada. Space, light and nature
      New directions in cultural expression: Architecture : the first mature cultural expression ; The nature of maturity : towards a western world architecture ; Manifest destiny in twentieth-century architecture.
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