Newfoundland Modern: Architecture in the Smallwood Years, 1949-1972 (McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History)
By Robert Mellin.
Description
In over 220 drawings and photographs, Robert Mellin presents the development of architecture in the decades immediately following Newfoundland's 1949 union with Canada. Newfoundland's wholehearted embrace of modern architecture in this era affected planning as well as the design of cultural facilities, commercial and public buildings, housing, recreation, educational facilities, and places of worship, and Premier Joseph Smallwood often relied on modern architecture to demonstrate the progress made by his administration. Mellin explores the links between Smallwood and modern archi...
ISBN(s)
0773539026, 9780773539020
