Ideas

When academic stallions are sent out to pasture, the last thing some are saddled with is a festschrift. These are collections of laudatory essays from…

Writing about modernism in colonial contexts, architectural historian Gwendolyn Wright proposes that “the physical environment became a strategy for enforcing…

This summer, Canadian Architect’s owner made the decision to give up the magazine’s physical office space. It follows a precedent set by many other magazines…

On the occasion of Brigitte Shim winning the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s Gold Medal 2021 with her partner, A. Howard Sutcliffe, Professor Shim…

Since they first began their collaborative practice, Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe have continuously dedicated their life in architecture to building…

“Good buildings need good friends,” said Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe in their 2006 Martell Lecture, delivered at the University at Buffalo’s School of…

We are truly delighted to receive the Gold Medal from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. To be honoured by our respected peers is the highest form…

In November 2020, Brigitte Shim presented the work of Shim-Sutcliffe as part of the Angan Lecture Series at the School of Architecture and Design, Brac…

Impostor Cities, Canada’s pavilion at the 2021 Venice Biennale Architettura, exists (as do a number of other pavilions this year) as much on screen as on the…

This past year and a half, the pandemic revealed racial and social equity shortcomings in our cities. Anxieties and fears around virus transmission were…

A year late and amid pandemic restrictions, the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia opened this summer. The opening brought a…

Concrete has long been the poster child for environmental impacts. While its impact is widely known, its use is even more widespread. In fact, according to an…