Winnipeg modern : architecture, 1945-1975 / edited by Serena Keshavjee.

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Keshavjee, Serena, 1961-

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TextPublisher number: 413008 | CaOOCELSeries: CEL - Canadian Publishers CollectionPublication details: Winnipeg, Man. : University of Manitoba Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780887553950
0887553958
0887556914
9780887556913

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Winnipeg modern.DDC classification:

720/.9712743

LOC classification:

NA747.W5 W46 2006eb

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Contents:

Modified modernism / Serena Keshavjee -- Winnipeg's landscape of modernity, 1945-1975 / David Burley -- Living modernism / Martin Tessler, Herbert Enns -- The campus as city : Centennial Hall at the University of Winnipeg / Serena Keshavjee -- The meaning of white / Kelly Crossman -- Wide open space : Manitoba's modernist landscapes / Herbert Enns -- The Winnipeg Airport : modernism, culture, and the romance of air travel / Bernard Flaman -- Manitoba mod : the work of Gustavo da Roza II : Terri Fuglem -- Étienne Gaboury : Manitoba modernist / Faye Hellner -- Biographies of Manitoba architects and designers / Aldona Dziedziejko -- Bibliography / Jenny Western.

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Summary: Annotation Founded in 1913, the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba was one of the earliest architecture programs in Canada. With a reputation for providing a solid Beaux-Arts education, and with the promotion of John A. Russell to the position of Dean, the school became a leader in North America for disseminating Modernist principles. Russell, an American trained at MIT, immediately began hiring first-rate faculty internationally, including James Donahue, who studied under Gropius at Harvard; Wolfgang Gerson, who trained in Bristol; and the Scottish Jim Christie. Russell also encouraged his students to do graduate work at top schools around the world, including working with London's Arup Associates--the firm responsible for the engineering of the Centre Georges Pompidou--and Mies van der Roche, at the Illinois Institute of Technology. The direct influence of Mies in Winnipeg resulted in an extraordinarily large number of buildings that are characterized by a strict adherence to the Modernist principles of truth to material, structural expression, and purity of form. Vivid and stylish,

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Annotation Founded in 1913, the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba was one of the earliest architecture programs in Canada. With a reputation for providing a solid Beaux-Arts education, and with the promotion of John A. Russell to the position of Dean, the school became a leader in North America for disseminating Modernist principles. Russell, an American trained at MIT, immediately began hiring first-rate faculty internationally, including James Donahue, who studied under Gropius at Harvard; Wolfgang Gerson, who trained in Bristol; and the Scottish Jim Christie. Russell also encouraged his students to do graduate work at top schools around the world, including working with London's Arup Associates--the firm responsible for the engineering of the Centre Georges Pompidou--and Mies van der Roche, at the Illinois Institute of Technology. The direct influence of Mies in Winnipeg resulted in an extraordinarily large number of buildings that are characterized by a strict adherence to the Modernist principles of truth to material, structural expression, and purity of form. Vivid and stylish,

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