Jerome Markson exhibition and book launch at U of T
On Wednesday, January 29, the exhibition A Quite Individual Course: Jerome Markson, Architect opens at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. The evening also include a launch for the book Toronto’s Inclusive Modernity: The Architecture of Jerome Markson. The book is written by Laura Miller, who also designed and curated the accompanying exhibition. The event runs from 5:30-8 pm.
Jerome Markson?s diverse body of work is inextricably linked with ? and contributed to ? Toronto?s postwar emergence as a cosmopolitan city that is open to many ways of living. His nearly six-decade-long architectural practice began in a time of profound transformation in Canadian society. As his practice evolved, Markson?s architecture moved past late-Modernism’s formal rigidity in favour of an increasingly pluralistic formal, spatial, and material language, reflecting his pursuit of a more open and inclusive expression of modernity. His buildings and urban works were harbingers of important shifts in sociopolitical attitudes, urban policies, and modes of architectural production. The exhibition A Quite Individual Course: Jerome Markson, Architect will focus upon selected works from Markson?s significant body of work on housing. From speculative homes in nascent suburbs, to bespoke private houses in established neighborhoods, to social housing in downtown Toronto, to luxury landmarks like the Market Square condominiums, Markson?s ho...
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