By situating the church architecture within the cultural dynamic of Montreal, the author closes a critical gap in our understanding of those decades of the British Colonial Period (1760-1860) when church buildings and their parishioners overtly marked the urban scene.

Editeur : Presses de l'Université du Québec
Parution : 2012-03-19
Collection : Patrimoine urbain
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A vivid, stylish, and fascinating look at internationally acclaimed architects and their work. Beginning in the 1940s, John A. Russell, dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Manitoba, nurtured a strong tradition of Modernist design with close...

Editeur : University of Manitoba Press
Parution : 2006-09-15

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Architect and artist Roger Kemble has demonstrated his ideas of urban design with images from sixteen major Canadian cities—among others. He has walked, measured, and sketched their streets, squares and places, scanned their horizons, probed the relationships between...

Editeur : Harvest House
Parution : 1989-06-01

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Grand Bilbao. Deluxe Edition. From Industry to Art. A Personal Album. Prologue by the architect: Bernardo I. García de la Torre 200 Pages on high quality photographic paper, 174 Photographs, 19 Historical and architectural reviews. Discover the evolution of Bilbao,...

Editeur : BoD - Books on Demand
Parution : 2025-04-30

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Is finding your house sinking into the ground the next big thing within sustainable architecture? Well, if you find the arguments of this project strong enough, it might actually be a common sight in the near future. The field of architecture needs to respond to the...

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2021-12-27

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As a second attempt, after Architecture Beyond The Anthropocene, already available online, this book is presenting a new set of reflections in a time at a pivot point. 62 young architects to be, are facing their own future and roles in a world experiencing massive...

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2020-03-18

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The architect should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory. Practice is the continuous and...

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2019-05-06

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The following Lectures are printed, as far as possible, just as they were delivered. Here and there a sentence which seemed obscure has been mended, and the passages which had not been previously written, have been, of course imperfectly, supplied from memory. But I am...

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2019-03-07

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Some years ago, in conversation with an artist whose works, perhaps, alone, in the present day, unite perfection of drawing with resplendence of color, the writer made some inquiry respecting the general means by which this latter quality was most easily to be attained....

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2019-02-28

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The Science of Architecture, followed out to its full extent, is one of the noblest of those which have reference only to the creations of human minds. It is not merely a science of the rule and compass, it does not consist only in the observation of just rule, or of...

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2019-02-28

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Architecture is a great stone book in which nations have recorded their annals, before the days of the printing-press: have written their thoughts, expressed their aspirations, and embodied their feelings as clearly and truly as by any other form of utterance. We know...

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2019-01-08

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Amongst the vestiges of antiquity which abound in this country, are the visible memorials of those nations which have succeeded one another in the occupancy of this island. To the age of our Celtic ancestors, the earliest possessors of its soil, is ascribed the erection...

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2018-11-21

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In trying to train the mind to judge of works of architecture, one can never be too patient. It is very easy to hinder one's growth in knowledge by being too ready to decide. The student of art who is much under the influence of one teacher, one writer, or one body of...

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2018-10-26

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IT's related by Historians, That Men, who in former times inhabited Woods and Caverns like wild Beasts, first assembled themselves to make Houses and Cities, which was occasioned by a Forest that was set on fire, which drew all the Inhabitants together by its novelty...

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2018-10-23

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A history of architecture is a record of man's efforts to build beautifully. The erection of structures devoid of beauty is mere building, a trade and not an art. Edifices in which strength and stability alone are sought, and in designing which only utilitarian...

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2018-10-08

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As a reflection of European identity and diversity, the landscape is our living natural and cultural heritage… Within the meaning of the European Landscape Convention the close links between the notion of landscape and human rights, democracy and sustainable...

Editeur : Council of Europe
Parution : 2017-10-01

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High above Kassel you find the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe. For centuries it was home to the rulers of Hessen-Kassel. The fascinating hillside ensemble showcases arcitectual and landscaping styles of several different periods. With an area of 2,4 km² the man-made landscape...

Editeur : Books on Demand
Parution : 2016-08-31

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