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This publication brings together five architectural practices that, while all distinct, share a particular sensibility for the impact of craftsmanship and climate on the generation of form, as well as a concern for the expressive tactility of material and the effect of light on the articulation of structure. Designed with detail, the book offers an indepth survey of(...)
Five North American architects : an anthology
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This publication brings together five architectural practices that, while all distinct, share a particular sensibility for the impact of craftsmanship and climate on the generation of form, as well as a concern for the expressive tactility of material and the effect of light on the articulation of structure. Designed with detail, the book offers an indepth survey of recent work by Steven Holl (New York), Rick Joy (Tucson), John and Patricia Patkau (Vancouver), Stanley Saitowitz (San Francisco), and Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe (Toronto). The regional specificity of the work is considered against a larger North American context, allowing one to assess the practice of its architecture today.
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Skyroom: the journey of Brian and Marilyn MacKay-Lyons at Shobac, seaside village on the edge
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In partnership with his wife Marilyn Mackay-Lyons and their family, architect Brian Mackay-Lyons has built a unique community over the granite ruins of a historic settlement on the fogbound coast of Nova Scotia. Among the structures at Shobac are homes, barns, studios, cottages, fishing shacks, a boathouse, even a schoolhouse, all designed in Mackay-Lyons's compelling(...)
Skyroom: the journey of Brian and Marilyn MacKay-Lyons at Shobac, seaside village on the edge
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In partnership with his wife Marilyn Mackay-Lyons and their family, architect Brian Mackay-Lyons has built a unique community over the granite ruins of a historic settlement on the fogbound coast of Nova Scotia. Among the structures at Shobac are homes, barns, studios, cottages, fishing shacks, a boathouse, even a schoolhouse, all designed in Mackay-Lyons's compelling architectural language that fuses contemporary Modernism with Nova Scotia building traditions. SkyRoom is written in a new genre that Gaudet calls magic architectural realism, blending fact with historical fiction in presenting the lives of early inhabitants and visitors to the Shobac area, including Samuel de Champlain, a Mi'kmaq mystic, an Acadian carpenter and other lively characters whose ghostly presence swirl in the untold myths of this coastal Shangri-La. More provocatively, Gaudet orchestrates imaginary conversations between Mackay-Lyons and legendary figures in architecture - Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies Van Der Rohe, Louis Kahn, Charles Moore and others - all towards providing a novel perspective on what goes into building communities and homes worth living in.
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Carscadden Thrift is structured in the spirit of the translation from drawing (speculation) to material (actual). Photographs document the messy realities of construction and are referenced to select drawings. The analogy to a set of contract documents is obvious but not superficial. It requires readers to examine both in order to understand the nature of a project --(...)
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Carscadden Thrift: selected works
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Carscadden Thrift is structured in the spirit of the translation from drawing (speculation) to material (actual). Photographs document the messy realities of construction and are referenced to select drawings. The analogy to a set of contract documents is obvious but not superficial. It requires readers to examine both in order to understand the nature of a project -- projects that taken collectively describe the culture of the studio and the firm's attempts to understand questions posited by the constraints of scale, site and schedule.
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This new publication is the third in a series profiling emerging design practices from across Canada in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. Projects by nineteen Canadian designers engage the public realm in meaningful ways, investigate new ideas in collective housing and urban infill, and explore prefabrication and regional domestic vernaculars. The(...)
Twenty + change 03 : emerging Canadian design practices
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This new publication is the third in a series profiling emerging design practices from across Canada in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. Projects by nineteen Canadian designers engage the public realm in meaningful ways, investigate new ideas in collective housing and urban infill, and explore prefabrication and regional domestic vernaculars. The book includes profiles of emerging firms, project descriptions, full color images and essays by noted architectural critics, educators, and practitioners.
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Jean-Marie Roy, architecte
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Cet ouvrage relate la vie et la carrière de l'architecte Jean-Marie Roy (1925-2011) qui a marqué l'architecture moderne au Québec par sa riche production s'étendant sur 40 ans (1953-1993. On lui doit plusieurs œuvres connues, dont l'église Saint-Denys à Sainte-Foy, les campus intercommunautaires de Saint-Augustin, le PEPS de l'Université Laval, le Centre médical Berger à(...)
Jean-Marie Roy, architecte
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Cet ouvrage relate la vie et la carrière de l'architecte Jean-Marie Roy (1925-2011) qui a marqué l'architecture moderne au Québec par sa riche production s'étendant sur 40 ans (1953-1993. On lui doit plusieurs œuvres connues, dont l'église Saint-Denys à Sainte-Foy, les campus intercommunautaires de Saint-Augustin, le PEPS de l'Université Laval, le Centre médical Berger à Québec, les tours de bureaux du complexe Desjardins à Montréal et la mise en valeur du Haut-Fourneau des Forges du Saint-Maurice à Trois-Rivières. Le livre retrace, dans un premier temps, son parcours professionnel, ses influences et l'évolution de sa pratique à travers les époques et différents thèmes représentatifs de sa production architecturale. Ensuite, une trentaine de réalisations marquantes sont présentées et illustrées de centaines de photographies anciennes et contemporaines ainsi que de dessins faits de la main de l'architecte. Ce panorama d'œuvres marquantes, mises en contexte d'un point de vue historique et artistique, permet de découvrir un bâtisseur du Québec moderne et une architecture inspirée et inspirante.
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"We have always exerimented on ourselves. Our own house in Toronto and the Harrison Island Camp at Georgian Bay are personal experiments. The Laneway House, completed in 1993, is an urban manifesto."
Shim Sutcliffe : the passage of time
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"We have always exerimented on ourselves. Our own house in Toronto and the Harrison Island Camp at Georgian Bay are personal experiments. The Laneway House, completed in 1993, is an urban manifesto."
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Arthur Erickson was one of the 20th century’s premier architects, but little has been written about the man who designed the interiors of Erickson’s award-winning buildings, whom everyone in the business simply called “Francisco”. A decade before his death, Erickson wrote this manuscript to pay tribute to Kripacz and to tell the world of the importance of Francisco’s(...)
Francisco Kripacz: interior design
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Arthur Erickson was one of the 20th century’s premier architects, but little has been written about the man who designed the interiors of Erickson’s award-winning buildings, whom everyone in the business simply called “Francisco”. A decade before his death, Erickson wrote this manuscript to pay tribute to Kripacz and to tell the world of the importance of Francisco’s creations. With stunning images from photographers such as Yousuf Karsh, this book looks at Erickson’s key projects and the crucial contributions made by Kripacz to their feel and glamour. It includes Erickson’s extended commentary on some of his most famous architectural projects from the 1970’s through the 1990s, including Roy Thomson Hall, the Eppich Houses, Napp Laboratories, and the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC., all of which featured interiors by Kripacz.
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Des dimensions massives pour un livre que NEUF a créé dans la lignée d’une tradition chère à son fondateur, et à son image : unique et pluriel. Unique, comme la relation de confiance qui l’unit à ses collaborateurs, pluriel, comme ses domaines d’expertise et d’intervention. L’ouvrage illustre cette dualité à travers plus de 500 pages, mêlant des textes bilingues et des(...)
NEUF architect(e)s: Un demi-siècle et toujours NEUF / Half a century of building storeys
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Des dimensions massives pour un livre que NEUF a créé dans la lignée d’une tradition chère à son fondateur, et à son image : unique et pluriel. Unique, comme la relation de confiance qui l’unit à ses collaborateurs, pluriel, comme ses domaines d’expertise et d’intervention. L’ouvrage illustre cette dualité à travers plus de 500 pages, mêlant des textes bilingues et des images d’hier, d’aujourd’hui et de demain, pour témoigner de la diversité des projets réalisés à travers le Canada, l’Amérique, l’Europe et l’Asie. Documents d’archives, reportages photographiques, anecdotes inédites et entrevues des parties prenantes retracent l’évolution de l’entreprise, en parallèle à celle du paysage économique et social d’une métropole qu’elle aura grandement contribué à bâtir
Roger d'Astous, architecte
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Formé par le célèbre architecte américain Frank Lloyd Wright, Roger D'Astous fut un des créateurs les plus féconds de la génération des pionniers québécois du modernisme après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Comme son maître, l'architecte montréalais fut avant tout un bâtisseur de maisons. Toujours fidèle aux principes de l'architecture organique, notamment l'intégration de(...)
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Roger d'Astous, architecte
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Formé par le célèbre architecte américain Frank Lloyd Wright, Roger D'Astous fut un des créateurs les plus féconds de la génération des pionniers québécois du modernisme après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Comme son maître, l'architecte montréalais fut avant tout un bâtisseur de maisons. Toujours fidèle aux principes de l'architecture organique, notamment l'intégration de l'œuvre au milieu naturel et le respect de la propriété des matériaux, il sut, grâce à une recherche persistante, concevoir des formes nouvelles qui lui permirent de créer un style personnel. Roger d'Astous apporta aussi une contribution exceptionnelle à l'architecture religieuse qui franchissait une étape de renouveau au moment où il entamait sa carrière. Sa production d'autres types d'édifices fut moins soutenue, mais presque chaque fois son intervention dans ces domaines a donné lieu à des œuvres qui se démarquent par leur originalité, comme en témoigne l'élégant Château Champlain à Montréal.
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Richard Henriquez is a major figure in Canadian architecture today. Born in Jamaica and educated at the University of Manitoba and MIT, and recently awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, he is the founding partner of Henriquez Partners, a firm recognized internationally for its design excellence. The winner of six Royal Architectural(...)
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May 2006, Vancouver / Toronto
Richard Henriquez : selected works 1964-2005
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Richard Henriquez is a major figure in Canadian architecture today. Born in Jamaica and educated at the University of Manitoba and MIT, and recently awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, he is the founding partner of Henriquez Partners, a firm recognized internationally for its design excellence. The winner of six Royal Architectural Institute of Canada/Governor General’s Awards and five Lieutenant Governor’s Awards, the firm, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, combines unique contemporary design with sensitivity to historical context and urban fabric.
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