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Book The Old Architecture of Quebec

Download or read book The Old Architecture of Quebec written by Ramsay Traquair and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1947 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art Et Architecture Au Canada

Download or read book Art Et Architecture Au Canada written by Loren Ruth Lerner and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 1646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies and summarizes thousands of books, article, exhibition catalogues, government publications, and theses published in many countries and in several languages from the early nineteenth century to 1981.

Book The Beautiful Old Houses of Quebec

Download or read book The Beautiful Old Houses of Quebec written by P. Roy Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Architectural Guide and Period Walking Tours of the Old City of Quebec

Download or read book Architectural Guide and Period Walking Tours of the Old City of Quebec written by Arthur John Hampson Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America

Download or read book Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America written by James D. Kornwolf and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating more than 3,000 illustrations, Kornwolf's work conveys the full range of the colonial encounter with the continent's geography, from the high forms of architecture through formal landscape design and town planning. From these pages emerge the fine arts of environmental design, an understanding of the political and economic events that helped to determine settlement in North America, an appreciation of the various architectural and landscape forms that the settlers created, and an awareness of the diversity of the continent's geography and its peoples. Considering the humblest buildings along with the mansions of the wealthy and powerful, public buildings, forts, and churches, Kornwolf captures the true dynamism and diversity of colonial communities - their rivalries and frictions, their outlooks and attitudes - as they extended their hold on the land.

Book Qu  bec City  1765 1832

    Book Details:
  • Author : David T. Ruddel
  • Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
  • Release : 1987-01-01
  • ISBN : 1772824046
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Qu bec City 1765 1832 written by David T. Ruddel and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a synthesis of social, demographic and economic change in Quebec City during the British regime, a period which saw the former French capital transformed into an English city with all the problems associated with rapidly growing urban centres.

Book Canadian Modern Architecture

Download or read book Canadian Modern Architecture written by Elsa Lam and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) President's Medal Award (multi-media representation of architecture). Canada's most distinguished architectural critics and scholars offer fresh insights into the country's unique modern and contemporary architecture. Beginning with the nation's centennial and Expo 67 in Montreal, this fifty-year retrospective covers the defining of national institutions and movements: • How Canadian architects interpreted major external trends • Regional and indigenous architectural tendencies • The influence of architects in Canada's three largest cities: Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver Co-published with Canadian Architect, this comprehensive reference book is extensively illustrated and includes fifteen specially commissioned essays.

Book Charles Baillairg

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christina Cameron
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780773506381
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Charles Baillairg written by Christina Cameron and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1989 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fourth-generation member of a Quebec City family of artists and architects, Charles Baillargé was encouraged by his family in both artistic and intellectual pursuits. He was proficient not only as an architect but also as a surveyor, engineer, mathematician, and inventor, publishing over 250 books and pamphlets on his many interests.

Book Architecture in Transition

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  • Author : Kelly Crossman
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 1987-11-01
  • ISBN : 0773561382
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Architecture in Transition written by Kelly Crossman and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1987-11-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: However, behind the public face of design, architectural life in Canada during the 1880s and 1890s was in turmoil. The Canadian public had lost confidence in its designers, students were forced to study abroad to secure a first-class education, professional rivalry was unscrupulous, architectural competitions a scandal. American architects and their architecture were the fashion. These things changed, but not before the world of the Canadian architect had been turned on its head, replaced by one which resembled the world of contemporary architects, with professional organisations, regulated standards, formalised education centred in the universities, and the belief that Canadian architecture should reflect local climates, culture, and geography. Kelly Crossman provides the first analysis of this period. Beginning with a review of the architectural milieu in Toronto and Montreal in the 1880s, he traces the rise of professionalism as an idea and architectural nationalism as a goal. His analysis is more a history of architectural ideas than a survey of forms. It places the architecture of these years in an historial and ideological context, demonstrating that it developed with its own logic in response to national and international factors. During the two decades after 1885, Canadian architects grappled with problems whose long-term implications they could not have foreseen: the role of the architect in industrialised society, the need to accommodate and integrate applied science, and the need to express their own and their country's personality in architectural form. By the beginning of this century they had begun to find their own voice. The story of this process will be of interest not just to students and scholars, but to anyone interested in the development of Canada and its architecture.

Book The Sixties

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dimitry Anastakis
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2008-02
  • ISBN : 0773574344
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book The Sixties written by Dimitry Anastakis and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new approach to one of the most memorable decades in recent history.

Book Women and Architectural History

Download or read book Women and Architectural History written by Dana Arnold and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, prominent architectural historians, who happen to be women, reflect on their practice and the intervention this has made in the discipline. Of particular concern are the ways in which feminine subjectivities have been embodied in the discourses of architectural history. Each of the chapters examines the author’s own position and the disruptive presence of women as both subject and object in the historiography of a specific field of enquiry. The aim is not to replace male lives with female lives, or to write women into the masculinist narratives of architectural history. Instead, this book aims to broaden the discourses of architectural history to explore how the potentially ‘unnatural rule’ of women subverts canonical norms through the empowerment of otherness rather than a process of perceived emasculation. The essays examine the historiographic and socio/cultural implications of the role of women in the narratives and writing of architectural history with particular reference to Western traditions of scholarship on the period 1600–1950. Rather than subscribing to a single position, individual voices critically engage with past and present canonical histories disclosing assumptions, biases, and absences in the architectural historiography of the West. This book is a crucial reflection upon historiographical practice, exploring potential openings that may contribute further transformation of the theory and methods of architectural history. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license.

Book The Architecture of Andrew Thomas Taylor

Download or read book The Architecture of Andrew Thomas Taylor written by Susan Wagg and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the year 1900, architect Andrew Taylor had designed Bank of Montreal branches across the continent and much of McGill University, helped found the McGill School of Architecture, and played a critical role in creating the first professional organization for Quebec architects. In The Architecture of Andrew Thomas Taylor, Susan Wagg presents a groundbreaking study of the life and work of a major figure in nineteenth-century Canadian architecture. Born in Edinburgh and trained in Scotland and England, Taylor spent two decades in Canada between 1883 and 1904, designing some of Montreal's most iconic landmarks. Wagg places his career amidst the wealth of opportunities provided by Canada's high society and captains of industry. Taylor's Canadian relatives, Montreal's powerful Redpath family, brought him into contact with the small group of financiers and entrepreneurs who controlled Canada's destiny. With the support of such influential patrons as Sir William Macdonald and the Bank of Montreal, Taylor successfully confronted dramatic changes in building technology as iron and steel were increasingly used and buildings grew ever taller. He innovatively adapted English and American styles to the Canadian environment, designing structures distinctively suited to their place in history. Positioning Taylor's extensive designs within the context of his time, The Architecture of Andrew Thomas Taylor firmly establishes his work as a cornerstone of Canadian architecture.

Book In Good Hands

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  • Author : Ellen Mary Easton McLeod
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780886293567
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book In Good Hands written by Ellen Mary Easton McLeod and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1905 two Montreal women, Alice Peck and May Phillips, founded the Canadian Handicrafts Guild. Inspired by British and American women in the arts and crafts movement, and spurred by their thirty-year rivalry with Mary Dignam of the Toronto-based Women's Art Association of Canada, these two created an organization that revived popular interest in traditional handwork done by women, Canadiens, Indigenous people, and new Canadians.

Book The National Register of Historic Places

Download or read book The National Register of Historic Places written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Statesman s Year Book

Download or read book The Statesman s Year Book written by S. Steinberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-29 with total page 1606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

Book Church of Notre Dame in Montreal

Download or read book Church of Notre Dame in Montreal written by Franklin Toker and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1991 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the extensive new preface, Toker examines the approach he took in writing The Church of Notre-Dame in Montreal and reflects on the implications of what has been discovered since the book was first published in 1970.

Book Around and about Marius Barbeau

Download or read book Around and about Marius Barbeau written by Gordon E Smith and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marius Barbeau (1883-1969) played a vital role in shaping Canadian culture in the twentieth century. Rooted in the premise that his cultural work – in anthropology, fine arts, music, film, folklore studies, fiction, historiography – cannot be read uni-dimensionally, the sixteen articles that comprise this book demonstrate that by merging disciplinary perspectives about Barbeau, evaluations and understandings of the situation around Barbeau can be deepened.