ARCHITECTURE IN TRANSITION:
From Art to Practice, 1885-1906

KELLY CROSSMAN

McGill-Queen's University Press
Kingston and Montreal

(c) McGill-Queen's University Press 1987
ISBN 0-7735-0604-7
Legal deposit third quarter 1987
Bibliotheque nationale du Quebec

Printed in Canada

This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Crossman, Kelly, 1953-Architecture in transition Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 0-7735-0604-7
1. Architecture - Canada - History - 19th century. I. Title. NA744.C76 1987 720'.791 c87-094585-8

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction 3

PART ONE PROFESSIONALISM

1 Developments 1885-90 9
2 Organization 28
3 Statutory Registration 36
4 Architectural Education 51

PART TWO NEW IDEAS

5 Steel, Iron, and Glass in the 1890s 67
6 The Eighteen Club Reaction and Beaux-Arts Ideas in Education 85

PART THREE NATIONALISM

7 The National Idea 109
8 Percy Nobbs and a National Theory 122
9 Towards a National Architecture:
The Ottawa and Saskatchewan Competitions 136

Notes 153
Bibliography 177
Picture Credits 188
Index 189

The illustrations appear following pages 4, 68, and 100.

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