Landscape Architecture in Canada

Hardcover with dust jacket, 664 pages, 8.50x10.25 in - 21.5x26 cm, colour illustrations.

Jacket scratched at spine heel and lightly bumped at head. Spine lightly bumped at head.

This volume's glossy pages and frequent photos offer an attractive presentation of Canadian landscape architecture in the past and present. Author Ron Williams (a 2018 Order of Canada appointee for his architectural work) discusses the role of Canada's geography in shaping landscape possibilities, the adaptation of imported architectural themes to a Canadian setting, the possibility of a Canadian architectural style, and architecture's reflection of Canada as a country of immigrants, settlers, and Indigenous groups. Projects explored vary in size from private dwellings (such as Arthur Erikson's Vancouver home) to entire cities (such as Kapuskasing's planning), and in nature from the concrete (such as the Alberta Legislature's grounds) to the less visible (such as western Canada's township grid layout). Throughout, Williams emphasizes landscape architecture's role in creating social spaces, addressing civic needs, and responding to challenging times.

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