Canadian architectural critics and scholars offer fresh insights into the country's unique modern and contemporary architecture. Beginning with the nation's centennial and Expo 67 in Montreal, this fifty-year retrospective covers the defining of national institutions and movements: • How Canadian architects interpreted major external trends • Regional and indigenous architectural tendencies • The influence of architects in Canada's three largest cities: Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver

The centennial projects : building the new / Marco Polo and Colin Ripley -- The architecture of public institutions / George Thomas Kapelos -- Campus architecture : the radical medium of learning / Lisa Landrum -- First nations architecture : a long journey forward / Odile Hénault -- Megastructures and high-tech / George Baird -- Postmodernism : reconnecting with history, memory, and place / Larry Wayne Richards -- Urban revitalization / Ian Chodikoff -- Environmental architecture / Steven Mannell -- West Coast land claims / Sherry McKay -- Prairie formations / Graham Livesey -- Eastern edge / Brian Carter -- Arctic architecture : standards, experiments, and consensus / Lola Sheppard and Mason White -- The architecture of Quebec : competition, culture, and conservation / David Theodore -- Toronto architecture : form and reform / Elsa Lam -- The new West Coast / Adele Weder.