Canadian Centre for Architecture: Buildings and Gardens

by Larry Richards

To mark the 1989 opening of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, this book documents the building designed for a unique institution: a museum and study center whose collection of architectural books, prints and drawings, photographs, and archives is one of the finest in the world. The essays and illustrations reveal the potential of a museum of architecture as a statement: about the nature of the works it collects and exhibits; about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262680580
• ISBN13: 9780262680585
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.