Elsa Lam is editor of Canadian Architect magazine and is based in
Toronto. She holds a doctorate in architectural history from
Columbia University.
Graham Livesey is a professor in the Master of Architecture Program
(Faculty of Environmental Design) at the University of Calgary in
Alberta, Canada.
"[1967] would be an interesting moment to look at Toronto, a place
that would seem somewhat old and lowrise to our eyes today, a city
of surface parking lots. Toronto would transform radically over the
coming decades, as would the rest of Canada. It's one reason why a
new book, Canadian Modern Architecture - 1967 to the Present, is so
compelling: it looks at how much remarkable building has taken
place since then and tells the story of Canada's modern, determined
invention."
- Toronto Star
"Canada's most distinguished architectural critics and scholars
offer fresh insights into the country's unique modern and
contemporary architecture. Beginning with the country's centennial
and Expo67 in Montreal, this retrospective covers the defining of
national institutions and movements, how contemporary architects
interpreted major external trends, regional and indigenous
architectural tendencies, and the influence of architects in
Canada's three largest cities - Toronto, Montreal, and
Vancouver."
- Contract Magazine
"Canadian Modern Architecture, 1967 to the Present is an
astonishing achievement by editors Elsa Lam, Graham Livesey and
their fifteen essayists. The book is essential for anyone who cares
about architecture, or who cares about Canada, and we'll be talking
about it for decades."
- Canadian Architect
"Lam and Livesey have brought together many of the most
distinguished critics and academics in the field, and the result is
a long and coherent conversation about the importance of modern
Canadian architecture. The book is highly readable and heavily
illustrated, an asset to professionals and to average
citizens."
- The Globe and Mail
"This is a vital and well-researched work, representing the first
comprehensive review of Canadian architecture in many years."
- Azure (Canada)
"The book cleverly does not pursue a single narrative thread but
assigns specific topics and regions to different specialists, in
order to paint a polyphonic picture....[B]rowsing through the
volume's 500 pages, you get a sense of the richness of an
architecture that is often at the service of citizens' needs,
perhaps less spectacular than others, but certainly more necessary
and not coincidentally still at the centre, every day, of many
peoples' lives."
- Abitare
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