The glory of Ottawa Canada's first parliament buildings /

By:

Young, Carolyn A. (Carolyn Ann), 1961-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1995.Description: xii, 204 p. : ill. ; 26 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0773512276
9780773512276

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

725/.11/0971384

LOC classification:

NA4415.C22 O889 1995

Contents:

Front Matter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- The Contemporary Scene -- A Demanding Contest -- Paper Architecture -- From Paper into Stone -- Table -- Appendices -- Notice to Architects -- Statement of Accommodation Required -- Alpheus Todd’s Memorandum -- Excerpts from Fuller & Jones’ Parliament Buildings Competition Entry -- Excerpts from Waterhouse’s Manchester Assize Courts Competition Entry -- Sources of Information in Tables 1 and 2 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Summary: The competition to design and construct the government buildings in Ottawa, the new national capital, was one of the most important architectural events in nineteenth-century British North America and the finished buildings inspired a major movement in Canadian federal architecture. The Glory of Ottawa focuses on the 1859 design competition for the parliamentary complex, from which these unrivalled buildings emerged. Young includes an investigation of the architectural climate in which the parliament buildings were conceived, providing insight into the practice of architecture in pre-Confederation Canada. The aftermath of the contest is also explored, including changes to the plans, the problem of costs, the critical reception of the buildings, and their place in the aesthetics of the time.

List(s) this item appears in: Richardson Collection

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Barcode
Reference	Carleton University, AVRC	Richardson Collection - Non CIrculating - Call No. Accompanied by Red Dot	Open-stacks	NA4415.C22 O889 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan	16055001437

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Signed "Gift of Author June 1995" in the front cover and on an additional piece of paper within the page of this book " From the Copy Carolyn gave me, destroyed ina flood at U of T Art Centre ( Replaced from Art Library because duplicates.?) - To Douglas Richardson, with Sincere appreciation for your excellent advice and supervision - Carolyn A. Young June 1995" and on the reverse of the same page "Gift of Carolyn Young ( June 1995 ) - Six years after her tesis, with much that is new in material, emphasis interpenetration - D.S. Richardson "

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-193) and index.

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