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Voices of the Unheard: Making injustices inherent in architectural education and…
Ten years ago, on my first day of architecture school, I walked into a lecture hall filled with Apple laptops—something I could not afford—and felt an…
Book Review: Space and Anti-Space
Space and Anti-Space: The Fabric of Place, City and Architecture
By Barbara Littenberg and Steven Peterson (ORO Editions, 2020).
“I regard the revival…
Technical: Retrofitting Heritage Masonry Buildings
TEXT Eric A. Charron and Randy Van Straaten
Heritage masonry buildings make up a large portion of Canada’s urban structures—from the historic warehouses in…
RAIC Journal: Revisiting the Young Architect Award with Taymoore Balbaa
By Tanner Morton, Editor, RAIC Journal
Awards can have a significant impact on an architect’s prospects—even more so when they come along early in a…
Book Review: Blueprint for a Hack
Blueprint for a Hack
By Vikram Bhatt, David Harlander and Susane Havelka (Actar Publishers, 2020).
Blueprint for a Hack describes a five-day project that took…
CA Recommends: Pandemic Objects
Last May, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum started the Pandemic Objects blog, and later mounted a physical exhibition of the same name. The project reflects…
Editorial: Acting on Equity
Equity, diversity and inclusion have come to the foreground as issues of central importance in the past months. Architectural organizations are beginning to…
Editorial: Post-pandemic Futures
As we look to the end of 2020, many architects are breathing a sigh of relief at having navigated, with more or less success, a harrowing year. While office…
How architects can take advantage of R&D tax incentives
New buildings constructed using innovative techniques are springing up all over Canada.
These structures only exist because someone tried to push the…
Book Excerpt: Concrete—From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future
The following excerpt is taken from Concrete: From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future by Mary Soderstrom (University of Regina Press, 2020). The book can…
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