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Architecture plays a powerful role in nation building. Buildings and monuments not only constitute the built fabric of society, they also reflect the intersection of culture, politics, economics, and aesthetics in distinct social settings and distinct times. This extraordinary anthology traces the interaction between culture and politics as reflected in Canadian architecture and the infrastructure of ordinary life, from first contact to the postmodern city. Whether focusing on Jesuit perceptions of New France, the construction of Parliament, or the ideas of Marshall McLuhan and Arthur Erickson, these essays showcase ways of thinking about architecture that extend beyond considerations of authorship and style to address cultural politics and insights from race and gender studies and from postcolonial and spatial theory. Architecture and the Canadian Fabric transforms how we see the role of architecture in mythmaking and nation building and in doing so radically questions how we continue to live in, interact with, and interpret the fabricated world.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Writing into Canadian Architectural History / Rhodri Windsor Liscombe Part 1: Architectural Culture in French Canada and Before 1 First Impressions: How French Jesuits Framed Canada / Judi Loach 2 Visibility, Symbolic Landscape, and Power: Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin's View of Quebec City in 1688 / Marc Grignon Part 2: Upper Canadian Architecture 3 The Expansion of Religious Institution and Ontario's Economy, 1849-74: A Case Study of the Construction of Toronto's St. James Cathedral / Barry Magrill 4 "For the benefit of the inhabitants": The Urban Market and City Planning in Toronto / Sharon Vattay Part 3: Building the Confederation 5 Shifting Soil: Agency and Building Type in Narratives of Canada's "First" Parliament / Christopher Thomas 6 Stitching Vancouver's New Clothes: The World Building, Confederation, and the Making of Place / Geoffrey Carr 7 Digging in the Gardens: Unearthing the Experience of Modernity in Interwar Toronto / Michael Windover Part 4: Reconstructing Canada 8 A Modern Heritage House of Memories: The Quebec Bungalow / Lucie K. Morisset 9 Place with No Dawn: A Town's Evolution and Erskine's Arctic Utopia / Alan Marcus Part 5: Styling Modern Nationhood 10 The Idea of Brutalism in Canadian Architecture / Réjean Legault 11 Nation, City, Place: Rethinking Nationalism at the Canadian Museum of Civilization / Laura Hourston Hanks Part 6: Fabricating Canadian Spaces in the Late/Postmodern Era 12 From Earth City to Global Village: McLuhan, Media, and the Cosmopolis / Richard Cavell 13 Big-Box Land: New Retail Format Architecture and Consumption in Canada / Justin McGrail 14 Archi-tizing: Architecture, Advertising, and the Commodification of Urban Community / Rhodri Windsor Liscombe Part 7: Identities of Canadian Architecture 15 "Canada's Greatest Architect" / Nicholas Olsberg 16 A Question of Identity / Michael McMordie 17 Memory, the Architecture of First Nations, and the Problem with History / Daniel M. Millette Conclusion: Future Writing on Canadian Architectural History / Rhodri Windsor Liscombe Index

About the Author :
Rhodri Windsor Liscombe is an associate dean of graduate studies and a professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia. Contributors: Geoffrey Carr, Richard Cavell, Marc Grignon, Laura Hourston Hanks, Réjean Legault, Judi Loach, Barry Magrill, Alan Marcus, Justin McGrail, Michael McMordie, Daniel Millette, Lucie Morisset, Nicholas Olsberg, Christopher Thomas, Michael Windover, and Sharon Vattay.

Review :
Broad in scope and filled with both insight and intriguing fact…this collection serves to entice a more sustained consideration of the relation between the messy realities of social practice and the production of this thing called architecture. - Christopher Macdonald, University of British Columbia (BC Studies, No.176, Winter 2012-13) The essays greatly advance the field of architectural history in Canada. Given the breadth on display, Canadian architects and historians surely will find items of interest and pertinence to their practice. - David Monteyne, Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary (Canadian Architect, April 2013) According to the editor's conclusion, this study should "reinforce attention to Canadian architectural patrimony and demonstrate its significance for the international discourse and practice of design". This work does succeed in doing so and also adds significantly to the body of literature on Canadian architecture. It is well researched and thoroughly documented. The analytical principles guiding the publication could be applied to other works, including further studies by this group of authors, covering more aspects of the architectural heritage of Canada. - Barbara Opar, Architecture Librarian, Syracuse University Library (Art Libraries Society of North America)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780774819404
  • Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of British Columbia Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 536
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0774819405
  • Publisher Date: 15 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 800 gr


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