Ideas

The CCA explores a groundbreaking architectural education mode.

A rooftop laboratory yields a bounty of information.

At La Biennale di Venezia, that six-month-long cultural Olympics, the oddly shaped  Canadian Pavilion has long vexed the many architects and artists…

Recounting the trials — and joys — of building a Canadian home that meets the "Passivhaus" standard.

Although Italy’s CERSAIE trade fair in Bologna at the end of September is synonymous with ceramic tile, entire halls at this vast annual event showcase the…

In 2014, Álvaro Siza donated his extensive archive of built and unbuilt projects since 1958 to three institutions, – the Serralves Foundation in Oporto, the…

Wine, opera, and motor scooters are among the exports most North Americans associate with Italy. But if you have attended the annual CERSAIE trade fair in…

The inaugural exhibition of the Polygon Gallery challenges our perception of time and place.

The spaces we design have order and understanding: plans, elevations, a parti. The spaces we inhabit contain things we recognize: named objects that give…

In the summer of 2004, I curated a small exhibition at Saskatoon’s Mendel Art Gallery that coincided with the 40th anniversary of its construction. Character…

Think beyond “educating the client” to build transformational relationships

Looking back on five decades of architectural hopes, triumphs and signs of our times.