Ideas

I have a confession: the idea I had about a woman’s path from victim to survivor in cases of domestic abuse was all wrong. I thought that seeking emergency…

The 2019 Canadian Architect Awards of Excellence jury—Rami Bebawi of KANVA, Joe Lobko of DTAH, and Cindy Wilson of LWPAC/Intelligent City—met at a charged…

In 2004, the cover of the Canadian Architect awards issue featured a drawing of the nine-sided Bahá’í Temple of South America, a design by Hariri Pontarini…

One of my first assignments as a freelance writer was an interview with product designer Itai Azerad. As we looked at photos of his Nemo lounge chair, he…

In the October issue, Canadian Architect published the winners of the RAIC’s annual awards, including Emerging Architectural Practice winner UUfie. While this…

I am encouraged to see so many architects signing the Architects Declare statement, and your ongoing coverage of the climate change emergency. It has inspired…

Climate change has emerged as a critical issue, and yet Canada’s politicians (of all stripes) are ignoring the easiest, the fastest, the least expensive and…

The Chicago Architecture Biennial challenges the profession’s entanglement with neoliberal economics, and its accompanying social and environmental ills.

TEXT AND DIAGRAMS J. David Bowick The most novel architectural material in Canada right now is an old one—wood. But when made into mass timber beams and…

Trevor Boddy reviews a newly released book edited by Canadian Architect’s Elsa Lam with architectural historian Graham Livesey.

More than a century ago, Nikola Tesla fought with Thomas Edison about whose hydro-electric power technology would be adopted—Tesla’s alternating current (AC) or…

Richard Johnson began looking at his own city with a new set of eyes when he and his partner moved to a 47th floor condo near Union Station. From there, he…