Ideas

As an architecture student in New Zealand 30 years ago, Rau Hoskins was taught little about the design contributions of his Maori ancestors. “Through the…

In spite of several hundred years of difficult challenges that include culturally destructive colonial strategies, many Indigenous communities are…

Patrick Reid Stewart, Ph.D., MRAIC (Nisga’a) Associate Professor, McEwen School of Architecture Professeur agrégé, École d’architecture McEwen As chair of…

Canada’s centennial in 1967 arrived with a sense of decided optimism, as the country entered a period of explosive growth. Roger du Toit, this year’s RAIC…

Creative studio no hands profiles photographer Christopher Ryan as he documents the cities around him.

Phyllis Lambert, architect and founder of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, pens a tribute to architect Peter Carter (1927–2017).

A strategy of charging for initial consultations allows architects to get paid for all of their work—as well as giving clients more confidence in the design…

Community-building synergies are behind a pair of Thier + Curran's recent projects: a social service oriented development in Hamilton, and another in Richmond…

By Joan Grierson with Alex Champlin. Table Rock Press, 2016. University of Toronto teacher and architect William Grierson, one of the partners at Brook…

By Hans Ibelings and PARTISANS. The Architectural Observer, 2016. “Sprawl” has multiple definitions, but my personal favourite was raised by Ellen…

By Marya Cotten Gould, Gregory Henriquez and Robert Enright. Edited by Robert Enright. Blue Imprint, 2016. Unlike a traditional call to action that urges…

Colin Ellard’s Places of the Heart makes a powerful argument for the paramount importance of our daily surroundings.