Ideas

High-rise living in multi-unit residential buildings is, historically speaking, a relatively recent development. Traditional housing typologies—including…

To mark the first anniversary of Canada’s Architects Declare initiative, we’re publishing the original text of the declaration, signed by over 200 practices. We…

How are architects faring as we head into the second wave of the pandemic? Two surveys in late August—one by the Ontario Association of Architects, the other…

The challenge we face is overwhelming and complex. Our industry’s emissions currently account for 40 percent of total global annual CO2 emissions. Of that, a…

When presenting our work on reducing embodied carbon in our projects in Kigali, we’re often asked some version of the question: “You can do that in Rwanda,…

I've been thinking a lot about the importance of making design education available to those who are distant from major cities, part of marginalized…

Prior to the COVID-19 shutdown, Montreal firm ACDF Architecture was already engaged in several office designs. In a Q&A interview, partner Joan Renaud…

Adaptation By Omar Gandhi, Jimenez Lai and John Leroux (Mexico City: Arquine, 2020) “There is a mythology about the first ten years of young architects in…

For over two decades, architect Sean McEwen and medical anthropologist Dan Small have been involved in designing and advocating for vulnerable populations in…

Canadian CLT Handbook, 2019 Edition Edited by Erol Karacebeyli and Sylvain Gagnon. (FPInnovations, 2019) Tall Wood Buildings: Design, Construction and…

Our August profile of RAIC Gold Medallist Blanche Lemco van Ginkel included a preliminary plan for Expo 67 with the caption “Blanche’s vision statement for…

Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning By Daniel A. Barber (Princeton University Press, 2020) It’s been more than 50 years since…