Ideas
Epidemics, architecture and city-building
Throughout history, disease and urban life are bound together, and together they’ve had a profound impact on the design of cities.
In the 19th century,…
Designing for Higher Education in a Pandemic World
From halting classes to delaying new construction projects, the pandemic has had a measurable impact on post-secondary institutions.
Quick adaptation to…
Archimatects
Evan Spence is an architect, set designer and humorist based in Calgary. More of his work can be seen at archimatects.com.
Longview: 50 Modernist Churches
My creative practice as an architectural photographer is centred around making evocative images that go beyond a straight documentation of buildings. How can a…
CA recommends: Post-It Note City
By Shannon Mattern
A visit to Sidewalk Labs’ workshop at 307 Lake Shore Boulevard in Toronto grounds this incisive analysis of the now abandoned Quayside…
Book Review: Houses for Sale
By Michael Meredith & Hilary Sample (Canadian Centre for Architecture and Corrani Edizioni, 2019).
“At first glance, children’s books seem like the…
CA recommends: The Transscalar Architecture of COVID-19
By Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation and Iván López Munuera
Part of The World Around, an online Earth Day summit, this 13-minute film is a…
Book Review: The Empty Room—Fragmented Thoughts on Space
By Reza Aliabadi (Actar, 2020)
In this pocket-sized manifesto, Persian-Canadian architect Reza Aliabadi explores the idea of emptiness as the essence of…
Book Review: Biennials/Triennials—Conversations on the Geography of Itinerant…
By Léa-Catherine Szacka (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2019)
Considering the inherent limitations around exhibiting architecture, it is a…
Book Review: The Kitchen
By John Ota (Penguin Random House Canada, 2020)
The kitchen—always the most functional room of the house—has become the most socially pertinent room in…
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