Substance over spectacle : contemporary Canadian architecture / Andrew Gruft ; with essays by Georges Adamczyk, George Baird, Sherry McKay, Marco Polo.

Main entry:

Gruft, Andrew.

Title & Author:

Substance over spectacle : contemporary Canadian architecture / Andrew Gruft ; with essays by Georges Adamczyk, George Baird, Sherry McKay, Marco Polo.

Publication:

Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2005.

Description:

223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Published to coincide with the eponymous exhibition, mounted by the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia, April 2005.
Published to coincide with the exhibition mounted by the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia, April 2005.
Includes chapters on Dan Hanganu's Centre d'archives de Montréal, Kuwabara, Payne, McKenna and Blumberg's projects for Concordia University and Faucher Aubertin Brodeur Gauthier's housing projects for the Cirque du Soleil.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Restructuring the discussion of contemporary architecture / Andrew Gruft -- The Auteur in Canadian architecture / George Baird -- Ideas of Canadian architecture / Sherry McKay -- Contemporary architecture in Québec: la différence / Georges Adamczyk -- Mannered modernism: fifteen years of Canadian architecture / Marco Polo.
Also issued online.
Co-published by the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1551521857
9781551521855
(pbk.) ; )
9781551521857

Subject:

Hanganu, Dan S., 1939-2017
Kuwabara, Payne, McKenna, Blumberg Architects
Architectes Faucher, Aubertin, Brodeur, Gauthier
Archives nationales du Québec à Montréal.
Cirque du Soleil
Concordia University
Architecture Canada History 20th century Exhibitions.
Architecture Canada Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Architecture 20e siècle Expositions.
Architecture.
Architektur
Architecture Canada 20th century Exhibitions.
Canada.
Kanada

Form/genre:

Ausstellung Vancouver (British Columbia) 2005.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Ausstellung.
Vancouver (British Columbia, 2005)

Added entries:

Adamczyk, Georges
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 242153
Call No.: NA745.6 .G78 2005
Status: Available

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