| Description |
1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection
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| Contents |
Modified modernism / Serena Keshavjee -- Winnipeg's landscape of modernity, 1945-1975 / David Burley -- Living modernism / Martin Tessler, Herbert Enns -- The campus as city : Centennial Hall at the University of Winnipeg / Serena Keshavjee -- The meaning of white / Kelly Crossman -- Wide open space : Manitoba's modernist landscapes / Herbert Enns -- The Winnipeg Airport : modernism, culture, and the romance of air travel / Bernard Flaman -- Manitoba mod : the work of Gustavo da Roza II : Terri Fuglem -- Étienne Gaboury : Manitoba modernist / Faye Hellner -- Biographies of Manitoba architects and designers / Aldona Dziedziejko -- Bibliography / Jenny Western |
| Summary |
Annotation Founded in 1913, the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba was one of the earliest architecture programs in Canada. With a reputation for providing a solid Beaux-Arts education, and with the promotion of John A. Russell to the position of Dean, the school became a leader in North America for disseminating Modernist principles. Russell, an American trained at MIT, immediately began hiring first-rate faculty internationally, including James Donahue, who studied under Gropius at Harvard; Wolfgang Gerson, who trained in Bristol; and the Scottish Jim Christie. Russell also encouraged his students to do graduate work at top schools around the world, including working with London's Arup Associates--the firm responsible for the engineering of the Centre Georges Pompidou--and Mies van der Roche, at the Illinois Institute of Technology. The direct influence of Mies in Winnipeg resulted in an extraordinarily large number of buildings that are characterized by a strict adherence to the Modernist principles of truth to material, structural expression, and purity of form. Vivid and stylish, |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- History -- 20th century
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ARCHITECTURE -- Criticism.
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ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Regional.
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Architecture
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Architecture -- Manitoba (Canada) -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
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Manitoba -- Winnipeg
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Keshavjee, Serena, 1961-
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| ISBN |
9780887553950 |
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0887553958 |
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0887556914 |
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9780887556913 |
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