This first detailed comprehensive study has been long awaited. Until now, interest in the history of Canadian architecture has been satisfied mainly by brief surveys or local histories. Writing these two volumes over ten years, Harold Kalman has produced a rich panorama, treating the vast range of Canadian building from the dwellings of the native peoples and the first settlers to buildings of the recent past and the present day. Describing the country's architectural history in a lucid and interesting narrative, and ...
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This first detailed comprehensive study has been long awaited. Until now, interest in the history of Canadian architecture has been satisfied mainly by brief surveys or local histories. Writing these two volumes over ten years, Harold Kalman has produced a rich panorama, treating the vast range of Canadian building from the dwellings of the native peoples and the first settlers to buildings of the recent past and the present day. Describing the country's architectural history in a lucid and interesting narrative, and placing the buildings firmly in a social and cultural context, Kalman brings to light some distinctive characteristics of Canadian architects and architecture: a respect for nature, natural forms, and local materials; the tendencies to absorb ideas from abroad and then simplify and restrain them, and to take a middle position between extreme modernism and extreme traditionalism; the development of marked regional differences; and the flair for producing innovations in response to social issues. Lavishly illustrated with over 800 black and white drawings and photographs, this is the ideal gift for architects, historians, and the general reader interested in architecture.
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Add this copy of A History of Canadian Architecture to cart. $10.08, good condition, Sold by Zoom Books Company rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lynden, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Oxford University Press.
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Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. Book Complete number line from 1 to 4; a bit of edge wear to dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; well illustrated with 436 black and white photographs and drawings.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1350grams, ISBN: 9780195411034.
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Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 1400grams, ISBN: 9780195411034.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Architecture. XL. Books are in excellent condition with the usual library markings: stamps, stickers, etc. Bindings are solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exteriors show no blemishes, texts/interiors are clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jackets show the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears and are covered in protective clear wrappers. Vol. I has 423 illustrations, & Vol 2 has 436, total of 933 pages. "Harold Kalman's long-awaited history of Canadian architecture is some kind of achievement. Of formidable breadth and scope, it is as attentive to the longhouse as the Bauhaus....I give it five stars and three cheers. ''--Adele Freedman, Globe & Mail.
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