Book Review

D’Arcy Jones Architects, 2009-2020  By D’Arcy Jones (Dalhousie Architectural Press, 2022) EXCERPT FROM INTRODUCTION BY Trevor Boddy Barely at the mid-point…

From the Ground Up: Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities By Alison Sant (Island Press, 2022) REVIEW Anne Lissett As the climate crisis worsens, and we…

Shelagh McCartney reviews a new volume on indigenizing architecture.

This new set of cards offers 52 activities intended to “Spark Your Creativity.” The cards run the gamut of design, from typeface to architecture, divided into…

Over the last several years, it has become apparent to conscientious architects, planners, and ordinary citizens that the much-touted Vancouverism—a phenomenon…

Brigitte Desrochers reviews the book Exploring the Capital: An Architectural Guide to the Ottawa Gatineau Region.

Andrew Bramm reviews Howard Shubert's architectural history of ice rinks.

David Valldeby reviews the book Tall Wood Buildings: Design, Construction and Performance, by Michael Green and Jim Taggart.

By John Leroux and Thaddeus Holownia. Gaspereau Press, 2016. More than anything else, a single colour defines the architecture of Mount Allison University’s…

By Liam Durcan. Bellevue Literary Press, 2016. Move over Howard Roark! The protagonist of neurologist Liam Durcan’s latest novel, The Measure of Darkness, is…

Edited by Maya Przybylski and Lola Sheppard. Actar, 2016. The third issue of bookazine Bracket explores design’s agency within the new norm of accelerating…

By Joan Grierson with Alex Champlin. Table Rock Press, 2016. University of Toronto teacher and architect William Grierson, one of the partners at Brook…

By Hans Ibelings and PARTISANS. The Architectural Observer, 2016. “Sprawl” has multiple definitions, but my personal favourite was raised by Ellen…

By Marya Cotten Gould, Gregory Henriquez and Robert Enright. Edited by Robert Enright. Blue Imprint, 2016. Unlike a traditional call to action that urges…

Colin Ellard’s Places of the Heart makes a powerful argument for the paramount importance of our daily surroundings.

Beyond Patronage developed out of a symposium hosted by the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo.