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Article: Le fantasme metropolitain: l'architecture de Ross et MacDonald. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2003
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Lachapelle, Jacques. Le fantasme metropolitain: l'architecture de Ross et MacDonald. Montreal: Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, 2001. Pp. 177. Illustrations, notes, glossaire, archives, bibliographie.
Le Fantasme metropolitain: l'architecture de Ross et Macdonald examines the impact of "economic rationalism" on the evolution of large buildings during the first four decades of the 20th century, and concurrently, determines how this architecture transformed the cores of Canadian cities. Author Jacques Lachapelle, a professor of architecture history and design at the Universite de Montreal, illustrates his inquiry with a selection of buildings produced by ...