Canada's 20th Century masters get their due in two new books
Ottawa Station was one of John B. Parkin & Associates’ many buildings that merged ‘culture with the cityscape’ in its designs. This photo is from a new scholarly work on Modernism in Canada, John C. Parkin, Archives, and Photography (University of Calgary Press, 2013). In the late-1950s and booming 60s, Parkin’s firm was the largest and most influential in Canada.Panda Associates fonds
John C. Parkin, Archives, and Photography does what many architecture books fail to do: It shows how the architecture shaped the man, and vice versaPanda Associates fonds
Toronto-Dominion Centre, from John C. Parkin, Archives, and Photography. Parkin’s firm partnered with Mies van der Rohe on the building.Panda Associates fonds
Cover, Making Toronto Modern: Architecture and Design 1895-1975 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014). Author Christopher Armstrong describes the struggle experienced by the Canadian modernists who came before in the decades prior to the Second World War.
The Ashley-Crippen house, A.E. LePage and B. Kelly, 1922, Construction, October 1922. Mr. Armstrong says this may well be the first Toronto residence to reject classical styling.
Gordon S. Adamson’s striking 1944 “Sun House” in Rosedale.
J. Posluns house, Jerome Markson, 1964, from Christopher Armstrong’s Making Toronto Modern