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Artists, architects & artisans : Canadian art 1890-1918

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2013
Publisher
Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada
Call Number
06 Ar8a
Responsibility
general editor, Charles C. Hill ; with essays by Christine Boyanoski, Andrea Kunard, Laurier Lacroix, Rosalind Pepall, Bruce Russell, Geoffrey SimminsCanadian art 1890-1918
Publisher
Ottawa : National Gallery of Canada
Published Date
2013
Physical Description
339 pages : colour illustrations ; 31 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Architecture
Art
Artists
Artists books
Canada
Mawson, Thomas
Photographers
Notes
Exhibition catalogue
Issued also in French under title: Artistes, architectes & artisans, l'art canadien 1890-1918
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Artists, Architects and Artisans: Canadian Art 1890-1918, organized by the National Gallery of Canada and presented in Ottawa from 8 November 2013 to 2 February 2014"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references and an index
Introduction / Charles C. Hill -- The pursuit of art and the flourishing of aestheticism amidst the everyday affairs of mankind / Laurier Lacroix -- Arts and crafts traditions in the Canadian domestic interior / Rosalind Pepall -- Artists, architects and artisans at home / Christine Boyanoski -- Art's 'renewed nearness to life': reflections on the unity of the arts in Canada / Geoffrey Simmins -- Ecclesiastical patronage in Canada: from the Gothic Revival to the arts and crafts movement / Bruce Russell -- For an integration of the arts / Charles C. Hill -- A harmony of the arts: the diverse expressions of pictorialism / Andrea Kunard -- Competing visions for redesigning the Canadian city: architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture, 1893-1918 / Geoffrey Simmins
ISBN
9780888849151
Accession Number
2015.8517
Call Number
06 Ar8a
Collection
Archives Library
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At home in nature : a life of unknown mountains and deep wilderness

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2017
Author
Wood, Robert Julian
Publisher
[Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
Call Number
G512 A84 W66
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Author
Wood, Robert Julian
Publisher
[Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
Published Date
2017
Physical Description
284 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color)
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mountaineering
Architecture
Autobiography
Alberta
British Columbia
Abstract
Rob Wood grew up in a village on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors, where he eventually developed a preoccupation with rock climbing. After studying architecture for five years at the Architectural Association School in London, England, he made his way to Montreal and ended up in Calgary. During his time in Calgary, Rob became a pioneer of ice climbing and posted numerous first ascents in the Rockies during the early 1970’s. Eventually, life in corporate Alberta proved unfulfilling and Rob realized that he needed to find a place where he could reconnect with nature, which brought him to the remote reaches of Canada’s West Coast. Settling on Maurelle Island, he and his wife built an off-the-grid homestead and focussed on alternative communities and developing a small house-design practice specializing in organic and wholesome building techniques. At Home in Nature is a gentle and philosophical memoir that focuses on living a life deeply rooted in the natural world, where citizens are connected to the planet and individuals work together to help, enhance and make the world a better — and sustainable — place. (from Rocky Mountain Books website)
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Leaving the old country
Allegiance to nature
Settling down
Cosmic shack
Back to the land community
Island schooling
Domestic animals
Wild animals
Fiordland boat
Mystery mountain
Deep wilderness
Cancer
Aorta attack
Outer islands community
Off-grib homestead
Organic house
Heavy weather
Flight of the imagination
Legend of Kayak Bill
Whirlpools in the tide
ISBN
9781771602501
Accession Number
A639
Call Number
G512 A84 W66
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
URL Notes
Summary on Rocky Mountain Books
Websites
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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2018
Author
Volland, Jennifer M. (editor), Bruce Grenville (editor), Stephanie Rebick (editor)
Publisher
Vancouver, BC : Vancouver Art Gallery : Information Office
Call Number
06.5 Vo88c
Author
Volland, Jennifer M. (editor), Bruce Grenville (editor), Stephanie Rebick (editor)
Responsibility
Edited by Jennifer M. Volland, Bruce Grenville, Stephanie Rebick
Publisher
Vancouver, BC : Vancouver Art Gallery : Information Office
Published Date
2018
Physical Description
309 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Cabins
Cabins and shelters
Architecture
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogue
History
Abstract
"Cabin Fever traces the tradition of the cabin in Canada and the United States--from the settlement of the frontier to the contemporary depictions feverishly circulated across the Internet--showing how this humble architectural form has been appropriated for its symbolic value and helped shape a larger cultural identity. The exhibition title is borrowed from the idiomatic expression for an anxious state of mind resulting from a prolonged stay in a remote or confined place. But it also plays upon the more consumer-driven definition of "fever:" a contagious, usually transient, fascination with an object of desire. Cabin Fever will offer a historical and cultural survey of the cabin in North America, an acknowledgement of the pervasive influence of this typology. Not only has the cabin survived in various forms and iterations, but it also has resonated deeply in our cultural psyche."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Essay on architecture / Marc-Antoine Laugier -- My saga - Part 1 / Karl Ove Knausgaard -- Ways of life in cold climates the north American subarctic / Jean-Luc Pilon -- The log cabin in America : From pioneer days to the present / C. A. Weslager -- Homesteading / Jennifer M. Volland -- A new home, who'll follow? Or, glimpses of western life / Caroline M. Kirkland -- Unsettling the frontier / Dawn E. Keetley -- Demogracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Roughing it / Mark Twain -- The problem of housing the negro : The home of the slave / W. E. B. Du Bois -- Railway cabins / Stephanie Rebick -- The industrial archaelogy of the organization of work / Dianne Newell -- Housing reconstruction after the catastrophe / Marie Bolton and Nancy C. Unger -- Fire lookouts / Jennifer M. Volland -- Mid-August at sourdough mountain lookout / Gary Snyder -- Alone on a mountain top / Jack Kerouac -- The journey home : Fire lookout : Numa Ridge / Edward Abbey -- Alpine huts / Jennifer M. Volland -- The disaster point hut / Helen A. Burns -- Ice huts / Photographs by Richard Johnson -- Walden; or, life in the woods / Henry David Thoreau -- Pond scum : Henry David Thoreau's moral myopia / Jathryn Schulz -- Structures in state parks-An apologia / Herbert Maier and A. H. Good -- Conrad Meinecke's your cabin in the woods / Stephanie Rebick -- Everything cold is new again / Michael Prokopow -- Ideas of north; Glenn Gould and the aesthetic of the sublime / Anyssa Neumann -- The modern cabin / Photographs by Julius Shulman -- Mail-order modern / David Hill -- A-Frame / Chad Randl -- Drop city / Peter Rabbit -- Drop city revisitied / Simon Sadler -- Understanding whole systems : Countercultural publications / Stephanie Rebick -- Urban renewal : Ghost traps, college, condos, and squats / Scott Watson -- The writer's cabin / Jennifer M. Volland -- The small cabin / Margaret Atwood -- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek / Annie Dillard -- To Louis Ginsberg [Paterson, NJ] July 10, 1974 / Allen Ginsberg -- Woodswoman / Anne LaBastille -- The terror and tedium of living like Thoreau / Diana Saverin -- Cabin fever / Mark Wigley -- The cabin on the screen : Defining the "Cabin Horror" film / Matthew Grant -- Why look at cabin porn? / Finn Arne Jørgensen -- The log cabin campaign : Image deception in 1840 / Steven Seidman -- Lincoln logs-Toying with the frontier myth / Erin Cho -- Living history sites / Jennifer M. Volland -- How to build a community / Zach Klein -- Airbnb and cabin mania / Stephanie Rebick -- The sinister truth behind cabin porn / Akiva Blander -- Eye candy : Recent publications on cabins / Jennifer M. Volland -- A place of my own : The architecture of daydreams / Michael Pollan -- Getting off the grid : A re-examination of the writer's cabin / Allison Geller -- The aesthetics of ruggedness / Stephanie Rebick -- Proposal for Kimball art center / Jennifer M. Volland -- High-tech companies, low-tech offices / Monica Kim -- Partisans, grotto sauna / Jennifer M. Volland -- Sustainable practices / Stephanie Rebick -- Mattie Gunterman -- Dorothea Lange -- Walker Evans -- Vikky Alexander -- Liz Magor -- James Benning.
ISBN
978-1-927656-39-6
Accession Number
2019.25
Call Number
06.5 Vo88c
Collection
Archives Library
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Calgary Heritage Authority Annual Report 2010

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2010
Author
Calgary Heritage Authority
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : Calgary Heritage Authority
Call Number
08.2 C11c PAM
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Author
Calgary Heritage Authority
Responsibility
Lesley Beale
Joni Carroll
Sarah Meilleur
Clea Sturgess
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta : Calgary Heritage Authority
Published Date
2010
Physical Description
38 p.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
History
History of Alberta
Buildings
Research
Architecture
Abstract
Pertains to built heritage resources in the city of Calgary as of 2010 - includes photographs, timelines, maps, recommendations
Contents
Executive Summary
Identify Protect Manage
Looking Back
Who We Are
Implementing
Saving Places
Reaching Out
Raising Awareness
Acknowledging
Funding
Identifying Places
Notes
Table of Contents page has information about James Langlands Thomson who also sculpted the faces on the Banff stone bridge.
Accession Number
2019.98
Call Number
08.2 C11c PAM
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Final 2012 version of report available online via the Calgary Heritage Authority
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Castle Mountain Siding

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Artist
C. Zollern
Date
1895
Medium
watercolour; photograph on paper
Catalogue Number
ZoC.13.01
Description
Colour: green, yellow. Three frames inside one. Top picture is a painting of a group of wooden buildings left of center with a flag pole (flag is flying) and antlers on the roof. In front are railway tracks with a team of four workers going along on a cart. Behind is a river with a man fishing in i…
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Artist
C. Zollern
Title
Castle Mountain Siding
Date
1895
Medium
watercolour; photograph on paper
Dimensions
34.8 x 47.5 cm
Description
Colour: green, yellow. Three frames inside one. Top picture is a painting of a group of wooden buildings left of center with a flag pole (flag is flying) and antlers on the roof. In front are railway tracks with a team of four workers going along on a cart. Behind is a river with a man fishing in it on the right. On both sides of the river are trees and in the distance are mountains. Sky fills the top. The lower two pictures are photographs. The left is of the first Banff Springs Hotel and Rundle Mountain. The right is looking down the main street of Banff in 1895.
Subject
landscape
Canadian Rockies
mountain
architecture
rura;
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1974
Catalogue Number
ZoC.13.01
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Chandelier and Pillar, Savoy Hotel

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Artist
Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)
Date
c. 1895
Medium
graphite on paper
Catalogue Number
CoJ.03.270
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Artist
Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)
Title
Chandelier and Pillar, Savoy Hotel
Date
c. 1895
Medium
graphite on paper
Dimensions
26 x 20 cm
Subject
landscape
architecture
Credit
Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997
Catalogue Number
CoJ.03.270
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Decorative Pillars, Savoy Hotel, London

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Artist
Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)
Date
c. 1895
Medium
graphite on paper
Catalogue Number
CoJ.03.269
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Artist
Charles John Collings (1848 – 1931, British)
Title
Decorative Pillars, Savoy Hotel, London
Date
c. 1895
Medium
graphite on paper
Dimensions
26 x 20 cm
Subject
landscape
architecture
Credit
Gift of John Rivette, Seymour Arm, 1997
Catalogue Number
CoJ.03.269
Images
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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2017
Author
Strugess, Clea, Trevor Boddy and Jeremy Sturgess
Publisher
Vancouver ; Berkeley : Figure.1
Call Number
06.5 St9g
Author
Strugess, Clea, Trevor Boddy and Jeremy Sturgess
Responsibility
Clea Sturgess, Trevor Boddy, Jeremy Sturgess
Publisher
Vancouver ; Berkeley : Figure.1
Published Date
2017
Physical Description
116 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Sunwapta
Glaciers
Jasper
Architecture
National parks
Photography
Photography, Aerial
Abstract
"Magical. Breath-taking. Unforgettable. Perched high above the Sunwapta Canyon in Canada's Rocky Mountains, Glacier Skywalk is all of these things--and more. Its choreographed pathways and cantilevered viewing platform allow visitors to see and experience the world in a whole new way. Glacier Skywalk tells the inside story of this award-winning collaboration between Parks Canada, Brewster Travel and the combined design-and-build team of Sturgess Architecture, PCL Constructors and RJC Consulting Engineers. Insightful essays by Trevor Boddy and Clea and Jeremy Sturgess reveal how the ideas came together and were realized in built form. Detailed sketches, three-dimensional renderings and stunning photographs by Robert Lemermeyer show how the structures evolved from start to finish. From the larch wood kiosk that welcomes visitors just off the Icefields Parkway, through the rock-lined walls, the glass floors and railings and the jagged steel forms that emulate mountains and glaciers, Glacier Skywalk reflects and highlights its surrounding environment. Whether or not you have stood suspended over the canyon--floating exposed to the elements, moving gently with the wind and visitors' footfalls, Glacier Skywalk captures the brilliance of the design and the magic of the experience. It is a book to treasure for years to come."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction
Designing the Skywalk
Building the Skywalk
Exploring the Skywalk
Afterword
Project awards
Project team
Project credits
About the contributors
Notes
Photography by Robert Lemermeyer
ISBN
978-1-927958-99-5
Accession Number
2019.26
Call Number
06.5 St9g
Collection
Archives Library
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Indigeneous architecture in Canada : a step towards reconciliation

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Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
2019
Author
Millette, Daniel M.
Publisher
National Trust for Canada
Call Number
Periodicals "L" Misc.
Author
Millette, Daniel M.
Responsibility
Dr. Daniel M. Millette
Publisher
National Trust for Canada
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
volumes : illustrations
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Architecture
First Nations
Abstract
Pertains to Indigenous architecture in Canada and how it pertains to reconciliation with examples from Thunder Bay, ONT; Toronto, ONT; Victoria, BC; Vancouver, BC; Hamilton, ONT;
Notes
In Locale : the magazine of the National Trust for Canada, special print issue, 2018/2019, pp. 18-25
Call Number
Periodicals "L" Misc.
Collection
Archives Library
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Date
1894 – 1896
Material
wood; glass; stone
Catalogue Number
101.01.0005
Description
Log cabin with round log construction. Bottom S.W. log has been replaced by stonework and concrete. One stone step leads to the only door which faces N.W. Door constructed from horizontal 1 x 4 wooden slats has a metal handle and pad lock. Chinking is mostly of oakum faced with concrete. The concre…
Title
Log House
Date
1894 – 1896
Material
wood; glass; stone
Dimensions
398.78 x 523.24 cm
Description
Log cabin with round log construction. Bottom S.W. log has been replaced by stonework and concrete. One stone step leads to the only door which faces N.W. Door constructed from horizontal 1 x 4 wooden slats has a metal handle and pad lock. Chinking is mostly of oakum faced with concrete. The concrete is very sandy and is deteriorating. Two windows, one is on S.E. side (88.3 x 88.9), has white casements, one pane is broken. The other window, on N.E. side (91.4 x 45.75 cm.) has green painted sills and white casements. Very mossy roof with wooden shingles over wooden slats. Tar paper lies between shingles and roof. Thin metal sheets take the place of shingles for about the width of 2 feet the length of the N.W. side. Electrical socket on S.E. exterior probably dates from the 1930's. Interior logs are white-washed. Gables are shingled . Ridge pole and one horizontal supporting beam of two extends about a meter from the edge of roof on S.E. side.Cabin originally belonged to Bill Peyto and was probably used as storage shed for saddles, packboxes etc. In 1935 it was used by Peter and Catharine Whyte as a temporary residence for models they were painting, the David Bearspaw family were among the inhabitants. Cabin has been moved twice, first in 1932 was moved slightly N.E. and again in 1968.
Subject
Bill Peyto
architecture
packers and guides
Credit
Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
Catalogue Number
101.01.0005
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