Modernism

A fundraiser surveys Modern and contemporary homes in West Vancouver.

In the ruthless postwar arena to build the nation in the modern paradigm, Barry Downs presented an anomaly. Soft-spoken, modest, and devoted to both…

Growing Up Modern, by Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster (Birkhäuser, 2021) REVIEW Javier Zeller PHOTOS Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster    Julia Jamrozik…

For good, and sometimes for ill, Vancouver’s Peter Cardew has become Canada’s definitive ‘architect’s architect’ over the past several decades. For good, he…

Partners in Design: Alfred H. Barr, Jr. & Philip Johnson An exhibition dedicated to the ambassadors of Modernism in North America …

A sensitive addition brings an art moderne house in Hamilton up to speed for contemporary living.

A discussion of the national and cultural context of 1955 sheds light on the beginnings of The Canadian Architect, as it was then known.

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

Sonja Bata, a longtime friend of architecture and Canadian architects, has been a strong advocate for design excellence and a benefactor of architecture…

Many West Coast Modern homes face fraught times, where their very survival will be on the line.

Dialogue is developing around the fate of the International Departures Lounge in Gander’s air terminal, a 1959 Modernist gem in need of costly repairs.

Reviews of Making Toronto Modern: Architecture and Design, 1895-1975 (Christopher Armstrong), Shim Sutcliffe—The Passage of Time (Annette LeCuyer) and…