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Born in 1929, Jerome Markson grew up across the street from the Art Gallery of Ontario over his father’s medical practice (Dr. Charles Markson). He attended the University of Toronto in the heady years immediately following the Second World War, when architects truly believed that good, logical architecture could make life better.
Without Jerry’s stories, guidance, wit and Job-like patience when dealing with my sometimes naïve questions, I don’t think this column would have been as informative for readers
Certain works of architecture are so carefully woven into the times, places and cultures within which they are set, they seem to have always been there. Such buildings form the settings for events both ordinary and extraordinary, shaping not only the ways we engage and remember these events, but also quietly defining how we see […]