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In the ten years since the first edition of A Guide to Canadian Architectural Styles This Guide provides an essential profile of the origins and development of the many architectural styles across Canada, from early settlement to the postmodern period, and discusses special forms such as religious, civic, domestic, commercial, and industrial design. While remaining true to the accessible format of the first edition, the second offers updated and considerably expanded text, as well as many more illustrations. A Guide to Canadian Architectural Styles, second edition is an invaluable reference tool for heritage activists and planners; university and college courses in Canadian architecture, history, and cultural resource management; and the interested general reader.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Introduction: Why Architectural Style? Architecture in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries The Quebec Style The Palladian Style Architecture in the Nineteenth Century The Neoclassical Style The Gothic Revival Styles The Romantic Gothic Revival Style The Ecclesiological Gothic Revival Style The French Gothic Revival Style The High Victorian Gothic Revival Style The Italianate Style The Second Empire Style The Romanesque Revival Style The Chateau Style The Queen Anne Revival Style Architecture in the Twentieth Century The Beaux-Arts Style The Edwardian Classical Style The Collegiate Gothic Style The Eastern European Style The Arts and Crafts Movement The Rustic Style The Domestic Revival Styles The Georgian Revival Style The Tudor Revival Style The Spanish Colonial Revival Style The Quebec Revival Style The Modern Movement The Chicago Style The Art Deco Style The Prairie Style The International Style The Structuralist Style The Brutalist Style The Expressionist Style Architecture of Aboriginal Peoples The Post-Modern Style and Beyond Glossary Suggested Reading Photo Credits Index

About the Author :
Shannon Ricketts is an architectural historian working with Parks Canada in Ottawa. She has researched and published on Canadian architectural history and on the history of the heritage movement in Canada. Leslie Maitland is an architectural historian and planner with Parks Canada in Ottawa. She has published several books and articles on Canadian architectural history. Jacqueline Hucker is an architectural historian working with Parks Canada in Ottawa.

Review :
A thoughtful, elegantly written, and easy-to-read guide to over three hundred years of architectural style in Canada. --Kelly Crossman, Carleton University


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781551115467
  • Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Broadview Press Ltd
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 480 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1551115468
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 178 mm

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