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Titre:
Peter Dickinson

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Every aspect of Dickinson's life was large, from his height to his wife - a former model - from his ambition to his social and professional standing. England could not contain him. He needed a larger stage and that is what he found here. The architecture he set into motion was like him: big, fresh, and bold. It was not only modern, it had an audacious individualistic style that twisted and turned in new and magnificent ways. This is the first major book on the Canadian architect Peter Dickinson.

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Mean city : From architecture to design - how Toronto went boom!

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The projects included in this book are some of the very best examples that our post-war architects, designers and artists have given Toronto. This book is a celebration of their work, their vision and their energy. The two world wars had a tremendous impact on transforming Canada into a confident and robust industrial nation. With that came a building boom and an artistic explosion that gave young entrepreneurs, designers, artists and architects opportunities to dream big, bold and modern. Mean City celebrates this great boom in architecture and industrial design from 1945 to 1975. With the tremendous opportunities available because of a raging economy, architects and designers built and dreamed like never before. Young architects were given the opportunity to execute fantastic and futuristic buildings that defied convention. Mean City captures Toronto at a moment in a great architectural boom, along with the individuals who were inspired to create this citys great architectural heritage. The book is also a lament to those great modernist buildings that have already been lost, and those that may also meet the same fate in the future.

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Endangered species

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"ENDANGERED SPECIES" investigates the notion of modern architecture as an endangered genus. Is modernism bound for extinction? The twenty-six buildings included in the book Endangered Species are threatened for demolition. The book aims to engage a debate about the survival of Canadian Modernism.

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Métro: le design en mouvement / design in motion

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Métro: Design in Motion/ Design en movement covers the history of the Métro from concept to execution, focusing on its architecture, engineering, industrial design, graphic design and art programme. The book documents all of the 68 subway stations across the city of Montréal, part of Dominion Modern’s mandate of recording 20th Century design across Canada. This was an exciting time in Quebec when visionary politicians like Jean Drapeau and Lucien Saulnier led the province in large scale public works projects that captured the imagination. As urbanist Jane Jacobs said at the opening, it was “a subway for human beings.”