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Architecture & Design NOW presents Graham Livesey
Modern Canadian Architecture, 1967 to the Present
6 pm | November 25, 2019
Room L1060, LINC Building
Free admission, everyone welcome!
Presentation and Mini-Book Launch!
Co-editor Graham Livesey visits the University of Lethbridge to provide an overview of the book, Canadian Modern Architecture, 1967 to the Present, recently co-published by Princeton Architectural Press and Canadian Architect. This fifty-year retrospective covers the defining of national institutions and movements, how Canadian architects interpreted major external trends, regional and indigenous architectural tendencies, and the influence of architects in Canada's three larges citites - Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase during the lecture and at the University of Lethbridge Bookstore.
Graham Livesey, BSc (Arch), BArch, MArch, PhD, FRAIC
Graham Livesey is a Professor in the Master of Architecture Program (School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape) at the University of Calgary. He has written and edited extensively on modern architecture and urbanism, with two books of essays (including the recently published Ecologies of the Early Garden City) and two large architectural anthologies for Routledge. He is the co-editor (with Elsa Lam) of the book Canadian Modern Architecture, 1967 to the Present published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2019. He is a regional correspondent for Canadian Architect magazine. In 2019 he was elected to the College of Fellows of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
Architecture & Design NOW wishes to thank the University of Lethbridge Bookstore for their collaboration on the mini book launch.
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