Canadian Modern Architecture, 1967 to the Present: Book Launch & Panel Discussion with Elsa Lam, George Kapelos and Marco Polo

Sponsored by the OAA with institutional support provided by RULA

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Not to be missed! This book launch and panel discussion on architecture and the civic realm, with George Kapelos, Marco Polo, and Elsa Lam will feature copies of the newly published retrospective available for sale.

Co-edited by Elsa Lam, editor of Canadian Architect magazine, and Graham Livesey, professor at the University of Calgary, this comprehensive review of Canadian architecture between 1967 - 2017 includes fifteen original essays and five hundred photographs and drawings.

The anthology covers the defining of national institutions and movements, how Canadian architects interpreted major external trends, regional and Indigenous architectural tendencies, and the influence of architects in Canada’s three largest cities—Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.

“This fascinating and much-needed compendium will certainly be welcome universally, and particularly in Canada, where it will raise the consciousness of a country that has respected, but not celebrated, the wide origins of its populations and its culturally as well as physically different regions,” writes Phyllis Lambert, Founding Director Emeritus of the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

“This anthology […] amounts to a major achievement of collective scholarship,” writes Kenneth Frampton in a foreword to the book. “By any standards, this is an encyclopedic tour de force documenting fifty years of Canadian architectural production across the expanse of what is still a sparsely populated continent.”