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House Shumiatcher

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As the son of Morris Shumiatcher, founder of Smithbilt Hats in Calgary, Judah spent his summers in high school and college learning the art of the hatter. Like so many other North American cities during this period, Calgary was experiencing a postwar housing boom…

 

SKU: 90421
Size: 8” x 5.5”, Portrait
Pages: 108
Binding: Trade Cloth
Publication Date: November 15, 2014
ISBN: 978-1-941806-61-6
World Rights: Available

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Description

“Judah took the knowledge and ambition he took from his meeting with Wright to continue a storied career in architecture in his home country of Canada.”

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Weight 3 lbs
Dimensions 12 × 12 × 2 in
Size

8” x 5.5”, Portrait

Pages

108

Binding

Trade Cloth

Publication date

November 15, 2014

ISBN

978-1-941806-61-6

World rights

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Overview

As the son of Morris Shumiatcher, founder of Smithbilt Hats in Calgary, Judah spent his summers in high school and college learning the art of the hatter. Like so many other North American cities during this period, Calgary was experiencing a postwar housing boom. Judah developed an interest in the delivery of inexpensive, well-designed houses and began to consider an alternate career as a building contractor. After all, work in that sector was abundant and the lifestyle appealing. A scheduled stop in New York City altered the course of his career. There, by chance, he encountered Frank Lloyd Wright, first in a television interview then, having obtained the courage, requested a private meeting in person at a temporary building on the site of the new Guggenheim Museum. Judah took the knowledge and ambition he took from his meeting with Wright to continue a storied career in architecture in his home country of Canada.
After 38 years in a house he built specifically for his family, they had to struggle with the difficult decision to sell the property as Vancouver rates were increasing by 200%, even though they knew a developer would tear it down. This book then serves as the lasting testament to a brilliant home designed by one of Canada’s best unsung architects.

Authors

Leslie Van Duzer is a Professor of Architecture and the Director of the School ofArchitecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia. Originally from California, she came to the University of British Columbia in 2010 after teaching in architecture schools across Europe (Technical Universities in Helsinki, Vienna, Prague and the Architecture School in Aarhus, Denmark) and the United States (UC Berkeley, Universities of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Minnesota, Arizona State University and Washington University). She has lectured and written for numerous international venues and has published three books in collaboration with Kent Kleinman: Mies van der Rohe: The Krefeld Villas, Villa Muller: A Work of Adolf Loos, and Rudolf Arnheim: Revealing Vision. A fourth book, co-authored with Maria Szadkowska, Adolf Loos: Works in the Czech Lands, accompanies a traveling exhibition. Her fifth book, House Shumiatcher, the first in a series of building monographs on endangered West Coast houses, will be published in2014. Her next book will be titled: Double Climax: Architecture and the Art of Deception

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SKU: 90421
Size: 8” x 5.5”, Portrait
Pages: 108
Binding: Trade Cloth
Publication Date: November 15, 2014
ISBN: 978-1-941806-61-6
World Rights: Available

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House Shumiatcher

“Judah took the knowledge and ambition he took from his meeting with Wright to continue a storied career in architecture in his home country of Canada.”

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