Up North: Where Canada's Architecture Meets the Land - Hardcover

Rochon, Lisa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1552636909 ISBN 13: 9781552636909

Publisher: Key Porter Books, 2004

Synopsis

The legacy of Canadian architecture grows out of the landscape, a landscape that is mythic in its scale and power. Up north, architecture rarely competes with the awe-inspiring forces of nature. It digs into the side of a hill or a mountain, or it rises up to match the temper of the land. In Canada, there is an unabashed intimacy between architecture and landscape.How do award-winning Canadian architects continue to distinguish themselves in the world`s hyper-market of design? By doing what theyve been doing since the 1940s: making meaningful, authentic sense of modernism.

The award-winning architecture that Canadians are producing today is not a concoction brewed up to suit the globalized aesthetic of design. It belongs to a legacy of intelligence in architecture that began on the West Coast: human-scaled, finely crafted architecture that heightened the sense of place. Over the past several decades, the best Canadian architects have developed a modern design language that never abandoned a strong sense of place. Original analysis and insights are drawn from the author`s extensive experience as the national architecture critic and her in-depth interviews with the gurus of Canadian architecture: Frank Gehry, Eberhard Zeidler, Raymond Moriyama, as well as the younger superstars such as Bruce Kuwabara, the Patkaus and Shim-Sutcliffe Architects.

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About the Author:

LISA ROCHON is the architecture critic for The Globe and Mail. She holds a master’s degree in Urban Design from the University of Toronto, as well as a Certificat d’Etudes Politiques from L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris. Since 1997, she has been an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto. She lives with her husband and four children in Toronto, Ontario. Visit Lisa's personal website at: www.lisarochon.com/

About this edition

• Publisher: Key Porter Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1552636909
• ISBN 13: 9781552636909
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304