VANCOUVER IN FOCUS
The City's Built Form
Mike Chadwick
Foreword by James K M Cheng
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It is not easy to capture on film the spirit of a modern metropolis like Vancouver. Compared to an historic city, the scale can be daunting, the spaces between the buildings often have less coherent form and the simple lines of contemporary architecture offer less detail for the camera. Yet Mike Chadwick has found a way, and the results are remarkable. He zeroes in on the rhythms, the textures, the intricacies. He discovers the best moments of our watery light and deep shadows. He shoots the arresting angle. And he finds the interfaces that matter: old and new, building and landscape; water and land; sky and skyline. The result is an intelligent story about several generations of city planning and urban design, and a delicious feast for the eye.
ARCHITECTURE / VANCOUVER / PHOTOGRAPHY
Hardcover / 150 b/w photos / 240 pages / 8.5" x 11"
ISBN: 1-894694-44-9 $39.95




The Life and Times of Victoria Architect
P. LEONARD JAMES
Rosemary James Cross
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Percy Leonard James was one of Victoria, British Columbia's preeminent architects through the early decades of the twentieth century. This well-researched biography, written by his daughter, chronicles James' personal and professional life from his early days in England to his becoming one of Victoria's most influential designers. As James' work is often overshadowed by his contemporary architects, Samuel Maclure and Francis Mawson Rattenbury, this book is long overdue and, in some instances, sets the record straight.
AWARD
Winner of the 2005 Mark Maddoff Award from the Hallmark Society
ARCHITECTURE / VICTORIA HISTORY
Softcover / B&W, profusely illustrated / 232 pages / 10" x 8"
ISBN: 09737259-0-7 $38.95





UPCOMING TITLE
FINDING A GOOD FIT
The Life and Work of BC Architect Rand Iredale
Kathryn Iredale with Sheila Martineau
During his 40-year career, architect Rand Iredale (1929–2000) initiated a compelling vision for the redevelopment of downtown Vancouver, was a mentor to some of BC’s most accomplished architects practising today, and became one of the pioneers of heritage preservation in British Columbia. Throughout the book a chronology of selected projects is interwoven with guest essays and interviews, writings by Rand and Kathryn Iredale, and touching family anecdotes.
A man of immense curiosity and generosity, Rand enjoyed both a mathematical mind and a philosophical soul. He was a great master planner and design collaborator on projects that included the Science Complex at Simon Fraser University, the Sedgewick Undergraduate Library at the University of British Columbia, the Westcoast Transmission Building in downtown Vancouver, and Place des Arts at Maillardville Heritage Square in Coquitlam.
Finding a Good Fit is ultimately about relationships: between land and building, engineer and architect, apprentice and mentor, husband and wife, father and child. And it is about partnerships: with family, friends, colleagues, clients, and communities.
ARCHITECTURE / MEMOIR / BC HISTORY
Paperback / 7.5” x 10.25” / 376 pages
Colour and b&w photos, maps and plans throughout
September 2007
ISBN 978-1-894694-53-7 $49.95 Cdn/US