Ideas

In 2011, a student asked architect and historian Lisa Landrum, an associate professor of architecture at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Architecture:…

TEXT Leah Snyder PHOTOS Mathieu Gagnon © CCA The idea of home is adaptable, meaning many things to many people. It also has meaning to other mammals, birds,…

Are we headed towards a recession? And if so, what should architecture firms be doing to prepare? Over the past months, the Bank of Canada has steadily…

In the ruthless postwar arena to build the nation in the modern paradigm, Barry Downs presented an anomaly. Soft-spoken, modest, and devoted to both…

Over the last two decades, the building industry has been developing new ways of decreasing energy use and related carbon emissions in new buildings – be it…

Given that 67.5% of all Canadians, or 23 million people, live in the suburbs, cities and those who plan, design, and invest in them, are exploring a myriad of…

Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead is the only novel that I ever tossed into the recycling after reading the last page. I still remember the THUNK of paperback…

It’s a summer of anniversaries for Reford Gardens, located on the Lower St. Lawrence River, east of Quebec City. 2022 marks the 150th anniversary of the…

Growing Up Modern, by Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster (Birkhäuser, 2021) REVIEW Javier Zeller PHOTOS Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster    Julia Jamrozik…

In a compact new book, former Smith Carter Principal and C.O.O. Rick Linley describes a simple method for understanding the financials of any architecture…

Our built spaces have a significant impact on climate change – in fact, the building and construction industry is responsible for nearly 40% of global…

We have less than 10 years to make real progress to stay within 1.5 degrees of global warming. Given that buildings are responsible for almost 40% of global…