Our book reviewed in Architect and Abitare
The AIA’s Architect magazine and Abitare are among the publications that have profiled the book Canadian Modern Architecture, 1967 to the present, co-published by Princeton Architectural Press and Canadian Architect magazine and released last fall.
Canadian Modern Architecture, 1967 to the present is a comprehensive review of major work in this county. It includes 15 original essays by authors including George Baird, Brian Carter, Ian Chodikoff, Odile Hénault, George Kapelos, Lisa Landrum, Steven Mannell, Sherry McKay, Marco Polo, Lola Sheppard, David Theodore, Larry Wayne Richards, Adele Weder and Mason White. It is extensively illustrated with 500 photographs and drawings.
In his review for Architect, Witold Rybzynski writes, “Canadian Modern Architecture: 1967 to the Present is a bulky little tome that is neither a directory nor a considered history but rather a survey of hundreds of buildings, large and small, public and private, important and obscure. The book is organized chronologically, thematically, and regionally, and includes essays by 17 different authors: academics, critics, and journalists. This large squad of scribblers is necessary because Canada is simply too large geographically, and too diverse culturally, to have a single coherent architectural story.” Rybzynski argues that one of the book’s lessons is how a thread of climate-driven pragmatism runs through the work of Canadian architects. “If you want a flashy clickbait...
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