Why do Vancouver’s buildings look the way they do? Fourteen chapters trace the history of the architectural styles present in Vancouver, from classical and Gothic to postmodernism. Over 80 beautiful full-page photographs of the city’s buildings, each accompanied by a page of commentary, illustrate the results of history written in wood, stone, concrete and glass. Styles & Society combines a social history of architectural style with in-depth analysis of individual buildings to show how society and ideology have shaped the city.

Here you will find excerpts from the book and news of its progress.


Thursday, January 21, 2016

After a long hiatus away from the blog, we're back! We've just completed a glorious draft of the entire book. It began as a photo book, expanded to become a history book, and expanded further to become an examination of how architecture mirrors our essential (and often unexamined) beliefs. We're thrilled to have reached this milestone after so long and and we look forward to sharing it with all of you.

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“At this stage in our history when most forces at work in society are disssociative ones, diffracting our knowledge even further, dispersing our energies, fracturing our society, disrupting the ecology of our planet, dismembering our cities, the architect has the opportunity – and I believe the duty, though he seldom seizes it – of being a cohesive force, of providing wholes…As the mechanization of life and man proceeds on its relentless course, we need to reaffirm that which the machines would atrophy in us – the human spirit.” – Arthur Erickson

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