Architecture, History, Modern (Late 19Th Century To 1945)
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Art Deco Toronto and Beyond
An Architectural Odyssey
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This book takes readers on a journey of the best surviving Art Deco architecture in Toronto and beyond, from the stunning 7th floor of Eaton’s former College Street Store to the breath-taking civic marvel of R.C. Harris’s ‘Palace of Purification’...
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John Mills Van Osdel, Architect, and his Chicago
The Story of His Life, 1811 to 1891
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There is no question that Chicago is an architecturally significant city. But before Louis Henry Sullivan, John Wellborn Root, and Frank Lloyd Wright, before modernism, there lived a man whose designs built it from the ground up. Written by his...