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On November 21st, the McGill School of Architecture will be hosting the book launch of Robert Mellin's Newfoundland Modern: Architecture in the Smallwood Years, 1949-1972.
The architecture of Newfoundland typically evokes images of spare but colourful houses and outbuildings by the sea. Newfoundland Modern reveals another dimension that challenges this impression.
In over 220 drawings and photographs, Robert Mellin presents the development of architecture in the decades immediately following Newfoundland's 1949 union with Canada. Newfoundland's wholehearted embrace of modern architecture in this era affected planning as well as the design of cultural facilities, commercial and public buildings, housing, recreation, educational facilities, and places of worship, and Premier Joseph Smallwood often relied on modern architecture to demonstrate the progress made by his administration.
Newfoundland Modern book launch
November 21st, 6:00 pm
The exhibition room of the McGill School of Architecture
Click here for more illustrations from Newfoundland Modern
To learn more about Newfoundland Modern, or to order online, click here.
To arrange an interview with the author, contact MQUP Publicist Jacqui Davis.
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