A Guide to Canadian Architectural Styles

by Ricketts, Shannon; Maitland, Leslie; Hucker, Jacqueline

• ISBN13: 9781551115467
• ISBN10: 1551115468
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr Higher education

Summary

In the ten years since the first edition of A Guide to Canadian Architectural Styles This Guideprovides an essential profile of the origins and development of the many architectural styles across Canada, from early settlement to the postmodern period, and discusses special forms such as religious, civic, domestic, commercial, and industrial design. While remaining true to the accessible format of the first edition, the second offers updated and considerably expanded text, as well as many more illustrations. A Guide to Canadian Architectural Styles, second editionis an invaluable reference tool for heritage activists and planners; university and college courses in Canadian architecture, history, and cultural resource management; and the interested general reader.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	11	(13)
Introduction: Why Architectural Style?	13	(4)
Architecture in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	17	(22)
The Quebec Style	23	(8)
The Palladian Style	31	(8)
Architecture in the Nineteenth Century	39	(72)
The Neoclassical Style	47	(8)
The Gothic Revival Styles	55	(26)
The Romantic Gothic Revival Style	56	(6)
The Ecclesiological Gothic Revival Style	62	(5)
The French Gothic Revival Style	67	(6)
The High Victorian Gothic Revival Style	73	(8)
The Italianate Style	81	(6)
The Second Empire Style	87	(6)
The Romanesque Revival Style	93	(6)
The Chateau Style	99	(6)
The Queen Anne Revival Style	105	(6)
Architecture in the Twentieth Century	111	(124)
The Beaux-Arts Style	117	(6)
The Edwardian Classical Style	123	(6)
The Collegiate Gothic Style	129	(6)
The Eastern European Style	135	(4)
The Arts and Crafts Movement	139	(4)
The Rustic Style	143	(6)
The Domestic Revival Styles	149	(14)
The Georgian Revival Style	150	(3)
The Tudor Revival Style	153	(4)
The Spanish Colonial Revival Style	157	(2)
The Quebec Revival Style	159	(4)
The Modern Movement	163	(2)
The Chicago Style	165	(6)
The Prairie Style	171	(6)
The Art Deco Style	177	(14)
Zig Zag	178	(6)
Stripped Classical	184	(5)
Streamlined Moderne	189	(2)
The International Style	191	(6)
The Structuralist Style	197	(6)
The Brutalist Style	203	(8)
The Expressionist Style	211	(6)
Architecture of Aboriginal Peoples	217	(8)
The Post-Modern Style and Beyond	225	(10)
Glossary	235	(4)
Suggested Reading	239	(4)
Photo Credits	243	(2)
Index	245