Making Toronto modern : architecture and design, 1895-1975 / Christopher Armstrong.
Making Toronto modern : architecture and design, 1895-1975 / Christopher Armstrong.
Making Toronto modern : architecture and design, 1895-1975 / Christopher Armstrong.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
Montréal & Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]
Call Numbers
GQ 2015/515
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MMS ID
Language
English
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Physical content
406 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 26 cm.
Content type
text
still image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Pressure for Change, 1895 -- 1919 -- 2. "Moderne" Arrives: The 1920s -- 3. Coping with Modernism, 1930 -- 1939 -- 4. Modern Architecture Delayed, 1940 -- 1950 -- 5. Time of Change, 1950 -- 1955 -- 6. Varieties of Modernism, 1956 -- 1965 -- 7. Modernism and Beyond,...
Publication information
Publisher
Montréal & Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]
Place of Publication
Québec (Province)
Date Published
[2014]
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"In the final years of the nineteenth century, Toronto architects started to consider how their city, through progressive architecture and urban planning, could be made "modern." Making Toronto Modern constructs Toronto's architectural past to create a compelling narrative of how new ideas about modernism were debated, received, and embodied in new...
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Full title
Making Toronto modern : architecture and design, 1895-1975 / Christopher Armstrong.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 368-398) and index.
Language note
Text in English.
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Date Copyright
©2014.
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Call Numbers
GQ 2015/515
Record Identifier
74VKO5ZL4Kyg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKO5ZL4Kyg
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ISBN
077354349X
9780773543492
DDC
720.9713/5410904
MMS ID
991022669739702626
