architectural history

Modern Architecture: A Planetary Warming History By Hans Ibelings (The Architecture Observer, 2023) REVIEW Graham Livesey Hans Ibelings’s latest…

Innate Terrain By Alissa North (University of Toronto Press, 2022) REVIEW Jason Brijraj         Landscape architect and scholar Alissa North is no…

In April, the Ontario Government announced that the Ontario Science Centre would be moved atop an underground parking garage at the redeveloped Ontario Place,…

Architect Moshe Safdie listens to Yo-Yo Ma play the prelude to Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major on an open deck by the sea, seated alongside King…

“Something akin to a miracle….” This is how John Fraser, Master Emeritus of Massey College describes his former institution, designed by Ron Thom in the early…

Étienne Joseph Gaboury, “father of landmarks,” and “Mr. Church,” has passed away peacefully on October 14, 2022 at the age of 92. Born in Bruxelle, Manitoba,…

Architect, planner, educator, and author, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel has been a leading figure in modern architecture for more than sixty years. She passed…

Architectural writer and cultural journalist, Adele Weder showcases the life and work of Ron Thom, an architect of unique genius, who fought to instill the…

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…

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

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…

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…

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

In 1932, construction began on Toronto’s Victoria Park Water Filtration Plant and Pumping Station. Designed by architect Thomas Canfield Pomphrey and engineers…

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…