Main entry:

Shubert, Howard, author.

Title & Author:

Architecture on ice : a history of the hockey arena / Howard Shubert.

Publication:

Montreal & Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2016]
©2016

Description:

xi, 316 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Series:

McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-303) and index.
Part 1. In the beginning : indoor rinks for skating, curling, and hockey, 1852 -- 1312. Outdoor games -- Indoor games -- Hockey as entertainment : spectatorship and the first hockey arenas, 1898 -- 1912 -- Part 2. Two hockey arenas in the golden age of sport, 1920 -- 1931 -- Buildings for mass entertainment -- Canada's secular shrines : myth, memory, and culture -- Hockey night in America : the first NHL hockey arenas in the United States -- Part 3. The spanning of space versus the spectacle of place : urban and suburban post-war arenas, 1960 -- 1983 -- Suburban arenas and the spanning of space -- Urban revitalization and the spectacle of place -- Part 4. From place to space : the corporate-entertainment complex, 1990 -- 2010 -- Mediated experience and the "fansumer" -- The corporate-entertainment complex and the city -- Conclusion: The disappearance of the hockey arena.

Summary:

"Despite the legendary reputations of Madison Square Garden, Maple Leaf Gardens, and the Montreal Forum, skating rinks and hockey arenas may be North America's most overlooked cultural buildings. Architecture on Ice reveals the central role they have played in influencing urban, social, and political life across the continent. In the first book to chart the development of skating rinks and arenas from their origins as simple wooden sheds to today's fully wired, multi-purpose entertainment complexes, Howard Shubert examines how these buildings have been adapted to seasonal change and to a multitude of uses besides skating - from political rallies to rock concerts - and how these adaptations, in turn, have transformed skating, curling, and hockey. Revealing the ways in which arenas are sites where sport, culture, and commerce intersect, Architecture on Ice describes four distinct phases in the development of these buildings: the early rinks and arenas of the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, the Golden Era of 1920-31, the building boom in postwar arenas from 1960-83, and the postmodern hockey complexes built between 1990 and 2010. Lavishly illustrated with surprising, amusing, and previously unpublished images, Architecture on Ice explains how the construction of buildings engineered the way recreational activities are performed and experienced."-- Provided by publisher.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780773548138 (hardback)
0773548130 (hardback)

Subject:

Public architecture.
Hockey arenas.
Hockey arenas Design and construction.
Hockey arenas Social aspects.
Hockey arenas History.
Patinoires couvertes.
Patinoires couvertes Conception et construction.
Patinoires couvertes Aspect social.
Patinoires couvertes Histoire.
Architecture publique.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293142
Call No.: BIB 237799
Status: Available