Book Review

HCMA Architecture + Design focuses on their large public projects across a spectrum of sectors including libraries, schools and fire stations.

For architectural settings to become fully relevant, they must manifest atmospheres that enable harmonious, synesthetic experiences of human action & place.

By Charles Waldheim. Princeton University Press, 2016. “In a period of a cult to the individual and the genius, with all due respect to genius, it is not to…

Projective Ecologies Edited by Chris Reed and Nina-Marie Lister. Actar and Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2014. A Natural History of English…

Edited by Jacques Plante and Nicholas Roquet. Les Publications du Québec, 2016. The final volume in a trilogy of books on Quebec cultural buildings,…

By Guillaume Ethier. Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2015. In this book, the term “iconic architecture” (“architecture iconique”) denotes the specific…

By Despina Stratigakos. Princeton University Press, 2016. Women have been struggling to make their presence felt in architecture for a long time. In the late…

Aliki Economides examines two books commemorating the 50th anniversary of Toronto City Hall.

Jeffrey Thorsteinson applauds a set of case studies by Montreal firm l'OEUF.

Elsa Lam reviews Avi Friedman's collection of short essays.

Mark Woytiuk reviews Peter Busby's newest book.

Ruth Jones reviews Breaking and Entering: The Contemporary House Cut, Spliced and Haunted

Odile Hénault reviews the authoritative Landscape Architecture in Canada by Ron Williams.

Reviews of Brutalist Architecture in Winnipeg (Jeffrey Thorsteinson), The West Coast Modern House: Vancouver Residential Architecture (Greg Bellerby) and Lost…