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…

Space and Anti-Space: The Fabric of Place, City and Architecture By Barbara Littenberg and Steven Peterson (ORO Editions, 2020).       “I regard the revival…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Equity, diversity and inclusion have come to the foreground as issues of central importance in the past months. Architectural organizations are beginning to…

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…

New buildings constructed using innovative techniques are springing up all over Canada. These structures only exist because someone tried to push the…

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…