Architecture, Town Planning and Community: Selected Writings and Public Talks by Cecil Burgess, 1909-1946 (University of Alberta Centennial Series) - Tapa blanda

Burgess, Cecil Scott

 
9780888644558: Architecture, Town Planning and Community: Selected Writings and Public Talks by Cecil Burgess, 1909-1946 (University of Alberta Centennial Series)
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ISBN 10: 0888644558 ISBN 13: 9780888644558
Editorial: University of Alberta Press, 2006

Sinopsis

This collection of Burgess's public talks and writings offers a unique insight into the social and intellectual dimensions of architecture and town planning during the first half of the twentieth century. Architectural history, the impact of the Arts and Crafts and Modernist movements, the meaning of domestic architecture, and the connection of architecture and town planning to everyday life figure prominently in this collection. A contemporary of Cecil Burgess said that no one in Canada was superior in architectural scholarship. Cecil Burgess was professor of architecture and resident architect at the University of Alberta between 1913 and 1940. A similar collection of writings and talks has not been published about Canadian architecture for this period. Foreword by Hon. Jim Edwards PC.

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Donald Wetherell is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary.

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"A community gets the architecture it deserves.professional architects are merely your interpreters to put your aspirations into being.But architecture cannot flourish unless the community has the interest and practical enthusiasm to make it flourish." - Cecil Scott Burgess on "Appreciation of Architecture" in 1932 Cecil Scott Burgess's public talks and writings offer a unique insight into the social and intellectual dimensions of architecture and town planning during the first half of the twentieth century. Architectural history, the impact of the Arts and Crafts and Modernist movements, the meaning of domestic architecture, and the connection of architecture and town planning to everyday life figure prominently in this collection of his writings. Historian Donald Wetherell writes that Burgess was influential in architectural and town planning in Western Canada. His dedication to the development of professional architecture, including training architects, his tireless promotion of town planning, and his efforts to broaden Canadians' understanding of architectural design give Burgess a special place in the history of Canadian architecture. Cecil Burgess was Professor of Architecture and Resident Architect at the University of Alberta between 1913 and 1940. He continued to work and live in Edmonton until his death in 1970 at 101. Donald Wetherell is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary.

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Editorial
University of Alberta Press
Año de publicación
2006
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0888644558
ISBN 13 
9780888644558
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
440
Editor
Wetherell Donald G.
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