Ideas

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…

I went for the Art, for a vague sense of the “hip-cool” countercultural presence there. The sun rises over a cold and dusty Playa ... we are riding hard…

Among the many celebrations and inaugurations at May’s RAIC Festival of Architecture in Saint John, New Brunswick, one event stands out to me as particularly…

Two of the most astonishing installations at the current Venice Biennale are by Canadian architects who most Canadian architects have never heard of.  Born and…

Utopie Radicali: Florence 1966–1976 exhibits at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal until October 7. The Canadian Centre for Architecture…

The 2015 change in the Ontario Building Code that permits wood structures up to six storeys and the resulting surge in the construction of these buildings,…

The 2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture offers a world of wonders and a showcase for Canadian talent

We see the city in reflection. Moving down the body of the tower, the camera’s gaze remains fixed on the tangled loose threads of Milan’s post-war urban fabric,…

Currently, the various cousins and alter-egos of universal design (accessible design, inclusive design, human-centred design) remain in the realm of selected…

Stantec: Airports. Edited By Trevor Boddy; texts by Trevor Boddy and Stanis Smith. Figure 1 Publishing, 2017 For the past several years, Stantec has been an…

Berlin 2013/1983 — By Daniel Young and Christian Giroux, with essays by Anh-Linh Ngo, Kenneth Hayes, Anne Huffschmid and Sandra Bartoli. Arch + Verlag, 2018…