A Guide to Canadian Architectural Styles - Softcover

Maitland, Leslie; Hucker, Jacqueline; Ricketts, Shannon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551110024 ISBN 13: 9781551110028

Publisher: Broadview Pr, 1992

Synopsis

How often have you looked with interest at a Canadian building, and thought that you would like to know more about its style? Does it embody elements peculiar to Canada as a whole, or to the region? Does it represent a revival or imitation of an English or Continental style? When did this style flourish, and why? When and why did it decline? A Guide to Canadian Architectural Styles is the first book to provide answers to these and myriad other questions. Both a field guide for the traveller and a reference book for loves of architecture, this book explores as never before the variations in structures peculiar to specific towns, cities and provinces. This volume follows the development of the styles that have shaped Canada's built environment from the first structures, through the early settlement period, the nineteenth century, and right up to modern times. And it remarks upon special forms such as religious architecture; civic, domestic, commercial and industrial design. Contents: Foreword; Building in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: The Seventeenth Century, The Eighteenth Century, The Quebec Style, the Palladian Style; The Nineteenth Century: The Neoclassical Style, The Gothic Revival Styles: a) The Romantic Gothic Revival Style, and b) the Ecclesiological Gothic Revival, The Italianate Style, The Second Empire Style, French Gothic Revival, The High Victorian Gothic Revival Style, The Romanesque Revival Style, The Chateau Style, The Queen Anne Revival Style; The Twentieth Century: The Beaux-Arts Style, The Edwardian Classical Style, The Chicago Style, The Modern Classical Style, The Art Deco Style, The Moderne Style, The Twentieth Century Revival Styles, The Georgian Revival Style, The Tudor Revival Style, The Spanish Colonial Revival Style, The Quebec Revival Style; The Arts and Crafts Movement; The Modern Gothic Style; The Prairie Style; The International Style; The Brutalist Style; The Expressionist Style; The Post-Modern Style; Glossary; F. Reading

About this title

About the Author

Shannon Ricketts is an architectural historian working with Parks Canada in Ottawa. She has researched and published on Canadian architectural history and on the history of the heritage movement in Canada.

Leslie Maitland is an architectural historian and planner with Parks Canada in Ottawa. She has published several books and articles on Canadian architectural history.

Jacqueline Hucker is an architectural historian working with Parks Canada in Ottawa.

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Pr
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551110024
• ISBN 13: 9781551110028
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222