Bibliographic record
Abstract
Evolving from the emergency wartime house, the wood-frame designs featured in CMHC’s small house catalogues (1946–1977) determined the material form and appearance of Canada’s post-war suburbs. However, clients occasionally hired architects, and commissioned houses were often designed for irregular or hilly lots that developers found too idiosyncratic to be profitable. A group of modern architects experimented with new construction assemblies and technologies, intensifying the connection between the interior and the outdoors. This chapter examines three such houses in the Ottawa-Gatineau region: the Schriever House by Patricia Yorke-Slader (1952) in Ottawa, and the Geldart House by James Strutt (1960) and the Ross House by Alistair Ross (1961) in Gatineau. The designers—three early-career architects, including a woman, a returning soldier, and a recent émigré—brought unconventional life experiences to their practices. While they were active in producing civic and public buildings for a burgeoning post-war capital city, it was through the quiet companion projects of domestic form that they pushed the limits of wood-frame construction. Distinct features included restrained dimensions, indeterminate forms, and porosity to nature—qualities that also made the structures vulnerable to time and changing market forces. The uncommon houses have disappeared, but their lessons endure.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.070 | 0.010 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".