Photo by James Mallinson
EDITORS Elsa Lam and Graham Livesey
CHAPTER AUTHORS George Baird, Brian Carter, Ian Chodikoff, Odile Hénault, George Kapelos, Lisa Landrum, Steven Mannell, Sherry McKay, Marco Polo, Colin Ripley, Lola Sheppard, David Theodore, Larry Wayne Richards, Adele Weder, Mason White
The book Canadian Modern Architecture, 1967 to the Present is the first comprehensive volume on modern and contemporary Canadian architecture to appear in over 25 years. The 50-year retrospective is co-edited by Canadian Architect editor Elsa Lam (FRAIC) and architectural educator Graham Livesey (FRAIC). It is co-published by Princeton Architectural Press and Canadian Architect magazine, and includes 15 original essays, along with some 500 photographs and drawings. ?Lam and Livesey have brought together many of the most distinguished academics and critics in the field, and the result is a long and coherent conversation about the importance of modern Canadian architecture,? writes Alex Bozikovic in The Globe and Mail. ?The book is highly readable and heavily illustrated, an asset to professionals and to average citizens.?
Adds architectural historian Kenneth Frampton, who wrote the book?s foreword, ?this anthology [?] amounts to a major achievement of collective scholarship. [?] By any standards, this is an encyclopedic tour de force.?
National Movements
This book is divided into four sections. The first section, on national movements, most explicitly addresses the idea of ...