architectural history

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…

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…

“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…

Modern Architecture (Fifth Edition) By Kenneth Frampton (Thames & Hudson, 2020) Modern Architecture and the Lifeworld: Essays in Honor of Kenneth…

As the new year begins, the Canadian architecture community is saddened to mark the passing of architect Eberhard (Eb) Heinrich Zeidler. Born in…

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is pleased to announce that Balkrishna Doshi will receive the Royal Gold Medal 2022. Given in recognition of…

Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier Duke University Press, 2021 REVIEW Lola Sheppard and Mason White At…

By Leslie Jen (Figure 1 Press, 2021). What is Canadian architecture? For author Leslie Jen, a former associate editor at Canadian Architect, there is no single…

This Sunday, a tribute to Cornelia Oberlander, LMBCSLA, FCSLA, FASLA, CC, will take place in Vancouver, honouring the famed landscape architect who died…