Substance over Spectacle: Contemporary Canadian Architecture
By Andrew Gruft.
Description
Substance Over Spectacle presents the best and brightest architectural work in Canada over the past 10 years, providing a glimpse of a specifically Canadian architectural practice that reveals a national sensibility that is unlike any other architectural trend in the world. Andrew Gruft argues that Canadian architecture is very much influenced by the country’s physique—geographically large, environmentally diverse—as well as its political and social heart, being sparsely populated (less so than California), and living in the shadow of America and other nation-states.The b...
ISBN(s)
1551521857, 9781551521855
