Ideas

By Christie Pearson (MIT Press, 2020) For as long as I can remember, I have had a deep attachment to the ritual of private baths. As a transgender man, my…

Edited by Murray Fraser (Bloomsbury Press, 2019) Sir Banister Fletcher’s A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method is something of a legend in our…

People are living longer, healthier lives than ever before. As they age, they are also seeking opportunities to stay active in their homes and communities. In…

In 2013, architect Michael Green recorded a TED talk entitled “Why We Should Build Wooden Skyscrapers.” To date, it’s been viewed more than 1.3 million times…

Vancouver-based Leckie Studio is a 20-person practice founded by architect Michael Leckie in 2015. The studio operates across a range of scales and…

EDITORS Elsa Lam and Graham Livesey CHAPTER AUTHORS George Baird, Brian Carter, Ian Chodikoff, Odile Hénault, George Kapelos, Lisa Landrum, Steven Mannell,…

ARCHITECTS Lemay / Atelier 21 PHOTOS Stéphane Groleau Since its grand opening on January 16, 1971, the Grand Théâtre de Québec has been a prized cultural…

Architects Brigitte Shim and A. Howard Sutcliffe, the founding partners of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, are designers of some of the finest architecture in…

Architects and designers love to receive awards. And why not? They honour the top accomplishments and best buildings of the profession, creating an occasion for…

Architect Anya Moryoussef is the director and founder of Anya Moryoussef Architect (AM_A), a practice started in 2016. Her professional career includes…

In the face of the climate crisis, contemporary ecological artists are investigating radical contingencies between site, mediating systems and viewers. French…

Like many architects, we have begun to pay much closer attention to the embodied carbon associated with the materials we are specifying. All other things being…