Many Norths - by Lola Sheppard & Mason White (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"There are many norths in this North." - Louis-Edmond Hamelin, 1975 <p/> Many Norths: Spatial Practice in a Polar Territory charts the unique spatial realities of Canada's Arctic region, an immense territory populated with small, dispersed communities. The region has undergone dramatic transformations in the name of sovereignty, aboriginal affairs management, resources, and trade, among others. For most of the Arctic's modern history, architecture, infrastructure, and settlements have been the tools of colonialism. Today, tradition and modernity are intertwined. Northerners have demonstrated remarkable adaptation and resilience as powerful climatic, social, and economic pressures collide. This unprecedented book documents--through the themes of urbanism, architecture, mobility, monitoring, and resources--the multiplicity of norths that appear and the spatial practices employed to negotiate it. Using innovative drawings, maps, timelines, as well as essays and interviews, Many Norths reveals a distinct northern vernacular.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>"There are many norths in this North." - Louis-Edmond Hamelin, 1975 <p/> Many Norths: Spatial Practice in a Polar Territory charts the unique spatial realities of Canada's Arctic region, an immense territory populated with small, dispersed communities. The region has undergone dramatic transformations in the name of sovereignty, aboriginal affairs management, resources, and trade, among others. For most of the Arctic's modern history, architecture, infrastructure, and settlements have been the tools of colonialism. Today, tradition and modernity are intertwined. Northerners have demonstrated remarkable adaptation and resilience as powerful climatic, social, and economic pressures collide. This unprecedented book documents--through the themes of urbanism, architecture, mobility, monitoring, and resources--the multiplicity of norths that appear and the spatial practices employed to negotiate it. Using innovative drawings, maps, timelines, as well as essays and interviews, Many Norths reveals a distinct northern vernacular.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Many Norths is, in many respects, a difficult book to define. It is equal parts design compendium, mapping practice, documentary repository, and more, with all of these facets held together by the authors' careful attention to the book's own spatial and readerly architecture. If a single, defining dimension emerges from its collection of textual and visual material it revolves around an effort to 'visualize, ' to deploy the term's most capacious spatial, temporal, and political purview, the spatial practices that have defined, and may continue to define, forms of settlement across the Canadian Arctic." --Andriko Lozowy, Space and Culture<br><br>"With almost daily headlines in the news that describe the impact of climate change and economic development, the design discourse about the [Arctic] region has continued to remain a veritable desert. With their new book Many Norths: Spatial Practice in a Polar Territory, architects Lola Sheppard and Mason White fill that void with 471 pages of dense, comprehensive, and inspired research. Not only does this work serve to recalibrate the ambitions and potentials of architecture and urban design in the Arctic, but Sheppard and White have also singlehandedly written what amounts to a manifesto and reference manual for Canadians and their northern half." --Journal of Architectural Education<br><br>"Writing on the Arctic is no small feat, and assembling the wealth of information present in the latest book by the principals of Toronto's Lateral Office is a remarkable undertaking. The appearance of Many Norths: Spatial Practice in a Polar Territory is also timely, arriving at a moment when Arctic communities are facing many challenges and opportunities. This deftly crafted book should be mandatory reading for students in architecture and architects interested in developing a practice above the Canadian tree line." --Marie-Josée Therrien, Canadian Architect Magazine<br><br>"The Canadian Arctic's salient features are familiar by themselves (indigenous populations, extreme weather, vernacular architecture, climate change, resource extraction, rapid development, and geopolitical jockeying) but when combined, they create a unique landscape. Many Norths' authors, the architects who helm Toronto-based Lateral Office, draw heavily from other fields (anthropology, sociology, glaciology, even hunting) to chart a regional past, present, and near-future. Equipped with ample images (photos, maps, drawings, diagrams) this book delves into a rapidly evolving region." --Metropolis Magazine<br><br>"This volume documents spatial practices and typologies in Canada's Arctic region, focusing on the Inuit transformations that have occurred over the past century, when modernity impacted the cultures, climates, and ecologies of the region. It discusses spatial practices as responses to the conditions of the region, emphasizing the themes of urbanism; architecture, including key building types and factors; mobility; monitoring in terms of observing, surveying, and reading the landscape in response to geopolitics and survival; and resources for survival, trade, and extraction. It illustrates the importance of these themes in transforming the region and how they have served as catalysts for development or tools for enacting spatial and cultural transformations. Each theme chapter includes a timeline; an essay on the theme's significance, historical trajectory, and current influential factors; interviews with practitioners or observers describing phenomena, tactics, and adaptations; and case studies of specific practices for places and geographies, such as Inuit architecture, government housing, sealifting, Inuit navigation and trails, search and rescue, icebergs, and the fur trade." --Eithne O'Leyne, Editor, ProtoView<br><br>"[Many Norths] is something of a magnum opus for the office, compiling many years' worth of research--architectural, infrastructural, geopolitical--including original interviews, maps, diagrams, and historical analyses of the Canadian North. Or the Canadian Norths, as Sheppard and White make clear. The book is cleanly designed, but its strength is not in its visual impact; it's in how it combines rigorous primary research with architectural documentation. The interviews are a particular highlight. While the focus of Many Norths is, of course, specifically Canadian, its topics are relevant not only to other Arctic nations but to other extreme environments and remote territories." --Geoff Manaugh, BLDGBLOG<br><br>"The new book [Many Norths] by architects Lola Sheppard and Mason White of Toronto-based firm Lateral Office is a compendium of useful information about Canada's high Arctic regions. Structured like a research manual for architects considering future opportunities in this context, the visually immersive tome is organized into five sections: urbanism, architecture, mobility, monitoring, and resources." --Blaine Brownell, Architect Magazine<br>
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