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edition:Paperback
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category: Architecture
published: Jan 1993
ISBN:9780774804103
publisher: UBC Press

Exploring Vancouver

The Essential Architectural Guide

by Harold Kalman & Ron Phillips

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Description

Vancouver's streetscapes have changed drastically in recent years. New buildings representing current architectural trends are mixing with and often replacing those of earlier eras and tastes. Exploring Vancouver invites the reader to experience the city's continually evolving landscape in a readable, yet authoritative, guide.

About the Authors
Harold Kalman is a specialist in architectural history and heritage conservation. He is the author of many texts, including A History of Canadian Architecture (Oxford University Press, 1994), Heritage Planning (Routledge, 2020), and Exploring Ottawa (Figure 1 Publishing, 2017). He is a member of the Order of Canada and holds appointments at the universities of Victoria and Hong Kong.

Harold Kalman is a specialist in architectural history and heritage conservation. He is the author of many texts, including A History of Canadian Architecture (Oxford University Press, 1994), Heritage Planning (Routledge, 2020), and Exploring Ottawa (Figure 1 Publishing, 2017). He is a member of the Order of Canada and holds appointments at the universities of Victoria and Hong Kong.
Contributor Notes

Robin Ward is an artist, designer, and architectural critic. He is the author of Robin Ward's Vancouver and contributes a popular column on architectural heritage to the Vancouver Sun. Ron Phillips is an urban geographer, bookseller, and freelance writer. Harold Kalman is an architectural historian and a principal of Commonwealth Historic Resource Management Limited. He was the author of the first two editions of Exploring Vancouver.

Awards
  • Winner, Vancouver Heitage Award, City of Vancouver
Editorial Review

Like his [Robin Ward's] prose, many of his photographs eschew the obvious, presenting not portraits of buildings but almost surreal studies that allude to their hidden qualities.

— Vancouver Courier

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