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The architecture of Adolf Loos : an arts council exhibition
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ISBN: 0728704757 Year: 1987 Publisher: London Arts council of Great Britain

Architecture in transition : from art to practice, 1885-1906
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ISBN: 0773561382 0773506047 9780773561380 9780773506046 Year: 1987 Publisher: Kingston, Ont. : McGill-Queens University Press,

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However, behind the public face of design, architectural life in Canada during the 1880s and 1890s was in turmoil. The Canadian public had lost confidence in its designers, students were forced to study abroad to secure a first-class education, professional rivalry was unscrupulous, architectural competitions a scandal. American architects and their architecture were the fashion. These things changed, but not before the world of the Canadian architect had been turned on its head, replaced by one which resembled the world of contemporary architects, with professional organisations, regulated standards, formalised education centred in the universities, and the belief that Canadian architecture should reflect local climates, culture, and geography. Kelly Crossman provides the first analysis of this period. Beginning with a review of the architectural milieu in Toronto and Montreal in the 1880s, he traces the rise of professionalism as an idea and architectural nationalism as a goal. His analysis is more a history of architectural ideas than a survey of forms. It places the architecture of these years in an historial and ideological context, demonstrating that it developed with its own logic in response to national and international factors. During the two decades after 1885, Canadian architects grappled with problems whose long-term implications they could not have foreseen: the role of the architect in industrialised society, the need to accommodate and integrate applied science, and the need to express their own and their country's personality in architectural form. By the beginning of this century they had begun to find their own voice. The story of this process will be of interest not just to students and scholars, but to anyone interested in the development of Canada and its architecture.

The architecture of Hiromi Fujii.
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ISBN: 0847808181 Year: 1987 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Rizzoli

Modern architecture in Europe : a guide to buildings since the industrial revolution
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ISBN: 0525244158 0525482164 Year: 1987 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Dutton


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Revista de edificación : RE
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ISSN: 22546340 Year: 1987 Publisher: Pamplona : Ediciones Universidad de Navarra,


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De leerlingen van Adolf Loos
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ISBN: 9062753353 Year: 1987 Publisher: Delft Delftse universitaire pers

Gids voor moderne architectuur in Nederland.
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ISBN: 9064500290 Year: 1987 Publisher: Rotterdam Uitgeverij 010


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The reluctant colonists : "Netherlanders abroad in the 17th and 18th centuries"
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ISBN: 902322227X Year: 1987 Publisher: Assen Van Gorcum


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A history of architecture.
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ISBN: 040801587X 9780408015875 Year: 1987 Publisher: London Butterworths

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