Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) President's Medal Award (multi-media representation of architecture).Canada's most distinguished architectural critics and scholars offer fresh insights into the country's unique modern and contemporary architecture. Beginning with the nation's centennial and Expo 67 in Montreal, this fifty-year retrospective covers the defining of national institutions and movements: • How Canadian architects interpreted major external trends
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Princeton Architectural Press

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History of Architecture

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Italic page numbers refer to illustrations

1x1 architecture, 329

5468796 Architecture, 329

60 Richmond East Housing Co-operative, 258–59, 264

Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute, 130, 138, 140, 141

AA Robins Architect, 471

Abbaye Val Notre-Dame, 411, 413

Abbey Church for the Benedictine Monastery, 411, 412

Abbey Church of Saint-Benoit-du-Lac, 210–11

Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN), 143, 146

Abugov and Sunderland Architects, 34, 300

Acre Architects, 345

Acton Ostry Architects, 16, 127, 345, 471, 485, 501

Adamson, Gordon, 423–24

Aedifica, 401, 403, 414–15

Aeroquay One, 85–86, 425

Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold, Michaud, and Sise (see ARCOP)

Affleck, Ray, 8, 167, 179

Aga Khan Museum, 460

Alexandra Park, 431, 441

Allan, Bruce, 374

Allen, Greg, 245

Allied Works, 330

Allsopp, Brian, 321–22

Alsop Architects, 445

Ampithéâtre Cogeco, 411

Andrews, John

background of, 157

campus architecture and, 111–12, 116, 120

Gund Hall and, 429

interior streets and, 11

megastructures and, 157, 159, 160, 179

Metro Centre and, 429

Newman and, 111

Scarborough College and, 7, 40, 111–12, 157, 159, 160, 427, 437, 446

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Cover
Title
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
National Movements
International Influences
Regional Responses
Centers of Influence
Notes
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index
Credits
Copyright

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