Architecture on ice
Subtitle: a history of the hockey arena
By: Howard Shubert
Series: McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history; McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780773548138
Subjects: Social aspects; Design and construction; Public architecture; Hockey arenas; History
Description: "Despite the legendary reputations of Madison Square Garden, Maple Leaf Gardens, and the Montreal Forum, skating rinks and hockey arenas may be North America's most overlooked cultural buildings. Architecture on Ice reveals the central role they have played in influencing urban, social, and political life across the continent. In the first book to chart the development of skating rinks and arenas from their origins as simple wooden sheds to today's fully wired, multi-purpose entertainment complexes, Howard Shubert examines how these buildings have been adapted to seasonal change and to a multitude of uses besides skating - from political rallies to rock concerts - and how these adaptations, in turn, have transformed skating, curling, and hockey. Revealing the ways in which arenas are sites where sport, culture, and commerce intersect, Architecture on Ice describes four distinct phases in the development of these buildings: the early rinks and arenas of the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, the Golden Era of 1920-31, the building boom in postwar arenas from 1960-83, and the postmodern hockey complexes built between 1990 and 2010. Lavishly illustrated with surprising, amusing, and previously unpublished images, Architecture on Ice explains how the construction of buildings engineered the way recreational activities are performed and experienced."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-303) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. In the beginning : indoor rinks for skating, curling, and hockey, 1852; title: 1312. Outdoor games; title: Indoor games; title: Hockey as entertainment : spectatorship and the first hockey arenas, 1898; title: 1912; title: Part 2. Two hockey arenas in the golden age of sport, 1920; title: 1931; title: Buildings for mass entertainment; title: Canada's secular shrines : myth, memory, and culture; title: Hockey night in America : the first NHL hockey arenas in the United States; title: Part 3. The spanning of space versus the spectacle of place : urban and suburban post-war arenas, 1960; title: 1983; title: Suburban arenas and the spanning of space; title: Urban revitalization and the spectacle of place; title: Part 4. From place to space : the corporate-entertainment complex, 1990; title: 2010; title: Mediated experience and the "fansumer"; title: The corporate-entertainment complex and the city; title: Conclusion: The disappearance of the hockey arena.