WRITINGS
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| SUB- JECT |
TITLE | date | description |
| Arch. History |
essay: "An Architectural History of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene" | 1982 | History of the Anglican church at Manning and Ulster, Toronto |
| Arch. History |
essay: "Architecture or Revolution?" | 1986 | A History and analysis of Gropius' Fagus Works,
which exemplified Modern Architecture's strategy of social reform
through design. Gropius wrote in 1911: "...the avoidance of social
upheaval depends upon the physical transformation of the
workplace..." Three questions are considered:
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| Art History |
essay: "Art and the Revolution: Russian Architecture, Painting, Sculpture and Drawing 1917 to 1922" | 1999 | An examination of the arts during the period of the Civil War in Russia. |
| History | essay: "Bellemy's 'Looking Backwards' - a Second Look" | 2001 | An examination of the book by Edward Bellemy, entitled "Looking Backwards", (written in 1888), in which he looks back at an ideal socialist Utopia, as if it were the year 2000. |
| History | book: " Biography of James A. Fletcher" | 2003 | A biography of my grandfather, James A. Fletcher III (1878 - 1972). |
| History | book: " Biography of John G. Fletcher" | 2003 | A biography of my father, John G. Fletcher III (1911 - 2002). |
| Prose | book: "Birds on the Left" | 1995 | The title refers to a Russian omen of good times to come. This is a novel of historical fiction based in the Ukraine of the 1990s. |
| Prose | book: "Broken Earth" | 1995 | a novel with the over-riding theme of the inter-relatedness of Earth's systems and how they are being degraded by human activities. "The sound you hear is the grinding of the gears of capitalism in its last throws as all of its contradictions come to full realization..." |
| Arch. Edn. |
book: "Building as Education" | 1995 | On buildings as more than a venue for learning, rather as an educational tool in itself. Also the process of building as an educational activity. |
| Prose | essay: "Camino Latino" ('Latin Journey') | 2003 | travelogue of my trips to Latin and South America |
| Arch. Risk Assess. |
report: "Chemical Hazards and Energy Conservation in Buildings" | 1984 | An analysis of contemporary hazards associated with energy conservation measures. A report contracted and funded by the federal department of Health and Welfare Canada. |
| Chess Theory |
essay: " Chess in Education" | 1996 | A Creative, Aesthetic, and Feminist Approach to the Life Lessons Learned by Students Studying Chess as an Integral Part of the School Curriculum -and as a Non-school Educational Experience. |
| Edn. Chess |
book: " Chess in Education" | 1995 | n the application and benefits of chess within the school curriculum. |
| Chess History |
book: " Chess Matches of David Fletcher" | 1995 | Analysis of my chess tournament play |
| Chess Theory |
book: " Chess Theory" | 1995 | Introduces my intuitive, non-patriarchal approach to chess |
| Edn. Theory |
"Conceptualization of Curriculuar Problems" | 1998 | A systematic and contextual framework for the consideration of curricular problems |
| Arch. History |
essay: "Critique of William Grigsby's 'Housing Markets and Public Housing'" | 1982 | Grigsby argued that the poor continue to suffer in poor housing, despite government efforts, because of the misguided 'filtering down' theory. |
| EDn. Theory |
essay:"Curriculum Issues: Learning in Non-School Settings" | 1998 | Katimavik as a Educational Experience in a Non-School Setting |
| Prose History |
book: " Dalyokoe" | 2002 | Title in the Russian language refers to going a
far distance and looking back. This personal narrative consists of
my reflections on a series of episodes and encounters that I feel
played a decisive role in my development,
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| History | essay: "Dikolne Polne" | 2000 | History of the steppe region from Crimea to Lugansk, Ukraine, including the period of Cossaks, anarchist general Machno, and the Soviet Union, and the contemporary period of instability. |
| Prose History |
book: " Dikolne Polne" | 2002 | A novel of historical fiction, taking place in two regions: Poland and the Donbass (Eastern Ukraine). The main character is an artistically-inclined, intellectual, vain, self-centred, and weak willed idealist. He moves from his home in south-east Poland to Lugansk in eastern Ukraine, because his Scotish ancestors had planned the mines and towns of this region called Donbass, and he wants to reconnect with his family's past. Like the region, he goes through a moral deterioration, from 1980 to 2002. The crucial moments of his personal experiences mirror the pivital developments of the recent history of these two nations. The rise and triumph of the Solidarity trade union in Poland and the collapse of the Soviet Union, as experienced in the Donbass. |
| Prose | essay:"Distance Beyond Distance" | 2001 | An essay on my travels in Eastern Europe. |
| Prose | book: " Distance Beyond Distance" | 2001 | A novel on my travels in Eastern Europe, and the cultural differences I encountered. |
| Green Theory |
essay: "Ecology and Economics" | 1983 | An analysis of contemporary economics in terms of ecological perspectives |
| Green Risk Assess. |
book: " Environment as Hazard" | 1983 | ... |
| Prose | book: " Father and Sons" | 1995 | A novel about a stubbornly patriarchal father and three independent-minded sons. |
| History | book: " Father Makhno" | 1995 | A history of Gerneral Makhno's Anarchist experiment in eastern Ukraine during the Civil War, 1917 to 1921. Makhno led an uprising against the Tsar at the age of 15 in 1905 and enjoyed the support of his soldiers and the people of his region. They fought successfully against many invading armies: Germans, Greens, Reds, Ukrainian Nationalist Army, Reds (again), and Whites (under Deniken), before being finally anhiliated by the Bolshevik Red Army (after aggreeing to ally with them and then being betrayed). Major decisions were taken by popular vote at large meetings. |
| History | essay: "Fertile Chaos" | 2002 | An analysis of Celtic cultural and religious practices which disputes the traditionally accepted (Roman) anti-Celt perspectives. |
| Arch. Theory |
essay: "Frozen Music" | 1980 | An exploration of certain of my architectural ideas developed during the 1970s |
| Arch. History |
essay: "Higher Nature: the Order of Nature and the Nature of Order in Palladio's Exedral Villas" | 1987 | A Examination of the underlying harmonics (natural order) and the redemption of landscapes through architectural ordering (ordered nature) in selected villas by Renaissance architect Palladio. |
| Arch. History |
essay: "A History of the Caravanserai" | 1980 | Examines the extensive network of stopover establishments in the Middle East from an architectural perspective |
| History | book: " A History of the Fletcher Clan" | 2003 | A history of my family and its roots: from the ancient Celts, through the formation of Scotland as an independent country, throught conquest by the English and the highland clearances, to migration to Canada. The focus is first on my grandfather, James A. Fletcher III (1878 - 1972) and my father John G. Fletcher III (1911 - 2002). |
| Arch. Risk Assess. |
book: " Home as Hazard" | 1985 | The home as a site of cognitive dissonence because we demand that it be safe but it is also a source of risk. |
| Arch. History |
book: " Home of Revolution" | 2001 | The home of ballerina Kreshinskaya is analysed from the perspective of its architectural history and its political history --being the first headquarters of the Bolsheviks starting in 1916. |
| Prose | book: " Illuminations" | 1982 | A work focusing on those rare moments of insight in which epiphanies occur. An autobiographical narrative structured in terms of episodes and encounters that I feel played a decisive role in the development of my ideas and understanding of life in general, and in particular my development as an artist, with digressions into the theory of art, architecture, and the psychology of creativity. |
| Green Edn. |
book: " Integrated Arts Approach to Global Education" | 1992 | On my approach to Global Education using Visual Arts to address anti-racist education, environmental education, |
| History Geography |
book: " Introducing Canada" | 1985 | A school textbook on the geography and history of Canada, used in American schools. Published by the Milliken Publishing Company, 1985. |
| History Geography |
book: " Introducing the Northeastern United States" | 1986 | A school textbook on the geography and history of the Northeastern U.S., used in American schools. Published by the Milliken Publishing Company, 1986. |
| Prose | book: " Journey to Crimea" | 2002 | A travelogue on the escape from stifling city life into the fresh air of the mountains of the Crimean peninsula. |
| Arch. History |
essay: "LeCorbusier's Urbanism and Paris" | 1981 | An analysis of LeCorbusier's re-design of the core of Paris according to his new urbanist principles |
| Arch. History |
essay: "The Lessons of Hong Kong and Singapore" | 1982 | A comparative analysis of two public housing experiences. |
| Prose | book: "Letters to Friends" Refletctions on My Life and Work" |
1995 | Intimate retrospection, in the form of letters to distant friends, on a variety of topics and experiences which have influenced my thinking, projects, and teaching. |
| Arch. Theory |
essay: "The Logic of Structures: Bridge Design Unit" | 1991 | A curriculum unit on bridge design which introduces the major principles of how structures wrok. |
| Prose | book: " My Year in the Forest" | 1995 | Story of my experiences in the isolated region of mountains, forests, and lakes northeast of Vancouver, B.C. |
| Arch. History |
essay: "Ontario House Typology Survey" | 1981 | Report done for the Ontario Ministry of Energy on the energy efficiency of Ontario houses |
| Arch. History |
essay: "The Order of Nature and the Nature of Order" | 1998 | An analysis of the architecture of Palladio in terms of environmental philosophy |
| Green Risk Assess. |
essay: "Ozone Depletion" | 1976 | Analysis of the causes and risk assessment of the consequences of significant reductions in Earth's ozone layer. |
| Arch. History |
book: " The Palace of the Soviets" | 1995 | A work which traces the conception, design competition, and ultimate abandonment of the construction of a great Palace of the Soviets in Moscow. It was to be the biggest, tallest building in the world. |
| Green Psychol. |
essay: "The Prisoners' Dilemma -Applied to Issues of the Environment" | 1983 | Examines the lessons learned about the way people make decisions in groups (most notably they are disproportionately influenced by unlikely but high returns) and act not in their best self interest, and applies these to ongoing problems of our relationship to the environment |
| Arch. Psychol. |
essay: "Psychosemiology and the Recognition of Building Types" | 1981 | A study examining how people recognize building types reveals the psychological structures that make up our systems of sign symbolism. |
| Arch Risk Assess. |
essay: "The Public Perception of Indoor Air Pollution Hazards" | 1984 | An analysis of contemporary public perceptions of the risks associated with indoor air contamination from outgassing of furnature, radon gas, and other pollutants |
| History | essay: "Reform Movements of the 1890s and 1960s --a Comparison" | 1981 | Comparison of how reform in the 1890s meant depoliticisation (ie. no parties) and reform in the 1960s meant politicization. |
| Arch. Risk Assess. |
essay: "Radon Mitigation in Existing Homes" | 1986 | Risk Assessment of air-sealed Housing. Techniques to reduce the risks associated with radon gases in homes. Sources tend to be cracks in basement walls which should be sealed. |
| Green History |
essay: "A Review of the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conservation Authority" | 1984 | Report on my study undertaken with funding from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment |
| History | essay: " Reflections on the REVOLUTION in ONTARIO: Lessons from the Street During Ten Days that Shook the Province" | 1998 | An anecdotal account of the Oct. - Nov. 1997 Strike by Ontario teachers against the Tory Bill 160. |
| Risk Theory |
book: " Safe Conduct" | 1995 | On the nature of acceptable risk and perceived safety. |
| History | essay: "Second Nature" | 1999 | The story. |
| History | book: " Silent Summer" | 1995 | Novel surrounding the 1636 order, by the Patriarch of Russia, that all musical instruments be burned. Set in a bleak provincial town in southern Russia, it is a story about human connection and disconnection --and the role that music plays. Specifically, the metaphysical ripples caused by the one act of the banning of music. |
| Prose | book: "Still Life" | 1995 | Story of the daily life of a woman in Crimea --which is unchanging despite dramatic political and economic turmoil. |
| History | book: " Teachers' House | 1999 | A history of the Kiev's Teachers' House which traces its conception, design competition, construction, use --including as the first Kiev headquarters of the Bolsheviks in 1917. |
| Chess | book: " Theories on Chess Strategy" | 1995 | Applies my approach to chess to large scale stategies. |
| Green Edn. |
book: " Towards an Ecozoic Curriculum" | 1995 | On enviornmental education. Published by the Etobicoke Board of Education, 1995. |
| Philos. | essay: "Turtles All the Way Down" | 1983 | A journal of conversations with Peter Timmerman |
| Energy Conserv. |
essay: "Upgrading of Rural Dwellings and Energy Conservation" | 1981 | techniques to improve the energy efficiency of rural homes. Introduced the measure or index I called: "habitability". |
| History | essay: "White Death" | 1998 | A history of the construction of the Baltic-White Sea Canal by forced labour in the 1930s |
| History | book: " White Death" | 1995 | A novel of historical fiction, taking place in the far north of Russia during the 1930s construction of the Baltic-White Sea Canal by forced labour. One story amongst many within the GULAG system of Stalin's Soviet Union. |
| Arch. | book: " Work in Progress" | 1995 | A collection of writings and drawings related to
architectural theory:
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