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RAIC Journal: 2021 RAIC International Indigenous Architecture and Design Symposium…
The Symposium focused on Indigenous representation, narratives, and collaborations, with sessions related to two themes: Making Room for New Indigenous Voices…
East-West Connection
Amidst the diversity of emergent narratives on culture and identity, I’ve been thinking about my own experiences with architecture, as a Chinese-Canadian…
Measures of Diversity
In January 2021, workplace people and culture consultancy Framework Leadership conducted a survey on workplace culture, leadership and inclusion within Canadian…
Guest Editorial: Designing for Democracy
The international design competition for Block 2—the city block directly across from Parliament Hill—is without a doubt the most important competition in…
Why Ontario’s housing stock is not meeting today’s multigenerational living…
Over the Covid-19 pandemic, the fragility of “traditional” housing has been exposed. The inability of assisted living and long-term care facilities to protect…
Fuel Switching and Decarbonizing Building Operations
AED professionals are becoming increasingly adept at improving the energy performance of individual buildings. But meeting global carbon reduction targets will…
Book Review: Canadian Architecture—Evolving a Cultural Identity
By Leslie Jen (Figure 1 Press, 2021).
What is Canadian architecture? For author Leslie Jen, a former associate editor at Canadian Architect, there is no single…
Book Review: GHETTO
By Henriquez Partners Architects and Wei Li (Blue Imprint, 2021).
Henriquez Partners Architects was one of several architects invited to exhibit their work in…
Book Review: Everything Needs to Change—Architecture and the Climate Emergency
Edited by Sofie Pelsmakers and Nick Newman (RIBA Publishing, 2021)
Over the last 18 months, we have all thought a lot about change: with Covid-19, wildfires…
Book Review: A Natural Balance—The K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre and…
By Alex Novell and John Leroux (Acadia University, 2021).
This handsome volume documents a well-loved part of Acadia University—the publicly accessible Irving…
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