Ideas

The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) is presenting Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths, on view through April 7 2019. Curated by Sylvia…

The Canadian Centre for Architecture's (CCA) exhibition Our Happy Life is a three-act study on the tactics used to legitimize new spatial models founded on the…

Inside North Korea.

In this excerpt from his new book, Andrew Levitt offers insights and advice for the creative process of architecture.

On Manitoulin Island, a design camp engages First Nations youth in designing their own future.

It has been a challenge and a privilege to edit Canadian Architect over the past year during Elsa Lam’s leave of absence. The temporary shift from my…

On Friday, November 2, Toronto's Kensington Market neighbourhood will host 'Poetry & Architecture in Conversation,' a unique event exploring the…

In this superbly researched and handsome book, Gauvin Alexander Bailey presents a groundbreaking assessment of three and one-half centuries of rampant French…

They don’t make them like they used to. For 72 years, Winnipeg’s Green Blankstein Russell and Associates (GBR) were prolific in ways not possible anymore. This…

In late July, I flew from Belgrade to New York. Leaving my Serbian homeland’s summer colours, I found myself immersed in the monochrome simulacra of Yugoslavia.…

After returning from the opening of this year’s Venice Biennale, I found myself thinking about the true value of promoting Canadian architecture abroad. How…

On the cover of The Modern A-Frame, Ben Rahn’s photograph renders light like a Magritte painting. A tungsten yellow triangle cloaked in a cerulean blue sky, it…