A History of Canadian Architecture [Abridged] [Paperback]

Harold Kalman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 6, 2003

With an expanded final chapter on modern architecture, which includes more than a dozen new buildings, this concise edition of the award-winning two-volume History of Canadian Architecture presents a panorama of Canadian buildings as rich as it is vast, from the dwellings of pre-contact Native peoples and the first European settlers to the revolutionary structures of the Modernist period and the renewed appreciation of the past that marks so much of the architecture created on the eve of the new millennium.

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Review

"These two handsome volumes constitute the first comprehensive account of Canadian architecture, for which he deserves praise....He advances the literature beyond the study of individual architects and structures or period and stylistic issues, and reverses the long-standing problem of dependence on US-centered books about North American architecture....It will interest a wide general audience and become a standard undergraduate reader."--Choice

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About the Author

Harold Kalman, a well-known architectural and heritage consultant, was born in Montreal and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Among his books are Exploring Vancouver (1974, 1978, 1993), Pioneer Churches (1976), and Exploring Ottawa (1983). He is a principal of the Vancouver office of Commonwealth Historic Resource Management Limited.

Product Details

• Paperback: 672 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Concise edition (February 6, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0195415361
• ISBN-13: 978-0195415360
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,848,641 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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