Canadian Architecture 1960/70
Text and Photography by Carol Moore-Ede
Burns & MacEachern, 1971
Awarded two Canada Council grants
Reviews:
”….Mrs. (Moore-)Ede deserves applause for breaking fresh ground; our architecture is far too seldom applauded, criticized, and celebrated”. Saturday Night, Oct. 71
“BEST IN CANADIAN ARCHITECTURE. Each of the buildings reflects a new architectural approach based on present-day needs, according to Carol Moore-Ede, a Toronto architectural expert …” Books in Review, Herald Magazine, Friday, July 2, 1971
“Canadian Architecture 1960/70 by Carol Moore-Ede got off to a good start in Canada, but it is now also selling in the U.S., and we have received our third order from Japan.” B.D. Sandwell, President, Burns & MacEachern, March 1972
“Canadian Architecture 1960/70 has been chosen as one of the best-designed and best books published in 1971. …a special, one-time Award of Excellence will be presented by the Canadian Book Publishers Council, who have sponsored the award.” The Prince Arthur House, 14 March 1972, Book Promotion and Editorial Club: The Look of Books 1972
“This is the first important book on contemporary Canadian architecture. …Canadian Architecture will be of major interest both to professional architects and lay lovers of architecture. ..Canadian Architecture is a good boo. It proves that good Canadian architecture exists.” Luc D’Iberville Moreau, architect, for The Montreal Star Entertainments, September 4, 1971
[Canadian Architecture] with its profuse illustrations and short lucid texts, is something for future studies to measure up to… it [the book] contains ..studies of some great works of the imagination that are not only inspirational for us as Canadians, but should give us a notch up in the world.” David Silcox, the Globe Magazine, July 3, 1971