Read an excerpt from The Prix de Rome in Architecture

Read a section of Coach House Book’s latest publication, The Prix de Rome in Architecture: A Retrospective. A chapter by Prix de Rome laureate Andrew King can be viewed as a downloadable PDF at http://www.chbooks.com/assets/pdf/PrixdeRome_King.pdf. The text appears in both official languages, so the excerpt (and the book) can be enjoyed by English- and French-speaking readers equally.<!--newline--><!--newline-->About The Prix de Rome in Architecture: <!--newline--><!--newline-->During the years the Prix de Rome was in place, from 1987 to 2003, some of Canada’s most important architects were given the opportunity to explore a more theoretical and experimental practice. Their projects, however, were not well disseminated and remain unknown to most of the architectural community.<!--newline--><!--newline-->By reproducing the work of each of the Prix de Rome laureates, this book hopes to introduce this important work to a broader artistic community. To contextualize the work and its influence on a generation of architects, each of the documented projects also includes an exploratory text by the laureate who created it and traces the trajectory of that laureate’s career since that time. Critical essays by Gary Michael Dault, Daniel M. Millette and Marco Polo consider the interface between art and architecture that the Prix de Rome has encouraged and explore the issues, ideas and representational methods from contemporary art that influence speculative architectural practice.