Book Review: Context and Content—The Memoir of a Fortunate Architect
Context and Content: The Memoir of a Fortunate Architect
By A.J. Diamond (Dundurn Press, 2022)
REVIEW Stefan Novakovic
In the opening chapter of his…
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architectural history
Unstacking the Deck
In 2011, a student asked architect and historian Lisa Landrum, an associate professor of architecture at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Architecture:…
In Memoriam: Barry Vance Downs, 1930-2022
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…
Revisiting Roark
Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead is the only novel that I ever tossed into the recycling after reading the last page. I still remember the THUNK of paperback…
Reford Gardens at 60
It’s a summer of anniversaries for Reford Gardens, located on the Lower St. Lawrence River, east of Quebec City. 2022 marks the 150th anniversary of the…
Book Review: Growing Up Modern
Growing Up Modern, by Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster (Birkhäuser, 2021)
REVIEW Javier Zeller
PHOTOS Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster
Julia Jamrozik…
Longview: R.C. Harris Water Filtration Plant
In 1932, construction began on Toronto’s Victoria Park Water Filtration Plant and Pumping Station. Designed by architect Thomas Canfield Pomphrey and engineers…
In Memoriam: Claude Provencher, 1949 – 2022
It is with great sadness that the partners and staff at Provencher_Roy announce the death of Claude Provencher, award-winning architect and co-founder of the…
2022 RAIC Gold Medal: Jerome Markson
Certain works of architecture are so carefully woven into the times, places and cultures within which they are set, they seem to have always been there. Such…
On Now, About Now: A Section of Now at the CCA
“A Section of Now” is on now and is about now. Conceived as a cross section of contemporary life from the last four decades or so, this provocative show…