The Douglas Cardinal Architectural Drawings
An Inventory of the Collection at the Canadian Architectural Archives at the University of Calgary Library

Linda M. Fraser, compiler
Kathy E. Zimon, editor

About the Book

Whatever the actual impact on architecture of Post Modern thought -- increasingly seeming more a revisionist phase in, than the termination of the Modernist enterprise -- its critique of rationalist and reductionist orthodoxies has been significant. That critique has reverberated through the career of Douglas Cardinal. Initially, he overcame ethnically based opposition as a student in the rigorously Functionalist School of Architecture at the University of British Columbia (1953-1954). Eventually, he would garner two major federal commissions in Canada and the United States for buildings that reinstate the marginalized First Nations Peoples in the institutional memory of both nations. -- from the Introduction by Rhodri Windsor Liscombe

The publication of this inventory provides a timely and necessary reference tool for all those who wish to understand and research the early years and development of this remarkable Canadian architect.

The holdings of the Canadian Architectural Archives focus on the architecture of twentieth-century Canada and the work of its outstanding architects.

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