Later this week, I am going to check out Building a History: Highlights of 20th Century Canadian Architecture at the Triangle Museum here in Calgary.
The exhibition features a great diversity of drawings from a period in Canadian history in which Canadian architecture found its own voice, and the subjects cut across many different categorical boundaries. Private residences, urban development schemes, cultural institutions, office towers, monuments, and decorative elements are represented by a variety of plans, elevations, sections, axonometric and aerial perspectives. Drawings represent proposed, existing or theoretical structures demonstrating both the creative struggle, the design process, and the finished work on a variety of artistic media including pencil, ink, wash, watercolour, gouache, on Mylar, tracing paper, vellum, and print.
You can read more about the exhibition in a recent article by Meaghan Baxter for Fast Forward.
