Ideas

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…

Manual of Physical Distancing Principal investigators Paul Lewis, Guy Nordenson, David J. Lewis and Marc Tsurumaki. Updated August 2020,…

The swimming pools of Nunavut serve as both physical and theoretical sites to consider the boundaries between architecture and infrastructure, their implicit…

I am an architect in Toronto, and one of the founding partners at studioDOM Architects. I am also a woman of colour who understands the courage it takes to be…

Architects of African, Caribbean and Black descent represent less than two percent of licensed practitioners in North America. Black women architects…