Canadian scholar receives Graham Foundation grant to study racialized landscapes
Sara Jacobs, an assistant professor of landscape architecture at the University of British Columbia, has received a Graham Foundation grant for her project…
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Book Review: Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture
Edited by Murray Fraser (Bloomsbury Press, 2019)
Sir Banister Fletcher’s A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method is something of a legend in our…
RAIC President’s Medal for Multimedia Representations of Architecture…
EDITORS Elsa Lam and Graham Livesey
CHAPTER AUTHORS George Baird, Brian Carter, Ian Chodikoff, Odile Hénault, George Kapelos, Lisa Landrum, Steven Mannell,…
CCA Master’s Program students release Toward Unsettling syllabus
An open-access syllabus focused on critically examining colonial practices in Canadian architecture has been released by the Canadian Centre for…
From the Ground Up: Addressing Systemic Racism in Canada’s Architecture…
What efforts are being made to address systemic racism in Canada’s architecture schools? School of Architecture Director Anne Bordeleau reports on the progress…
In Memoriam: Peter Cardew, 1939-2020
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…
November 12: For Her Record—Notes on the work of Blanche Lemco van Ginkel
On November 12, an online event celebrates and honours the legacy of architect, urban planner, educator and activist Blanche Lemco van Ginkel. The…
Architecture, Anthropology and Social Acceptance
For over two decades, architect Sean McEwen and medical anthropologist Dan Small have been involved in designing and advocating for vulnerable populations in…
Man in/and his World
Our August profile of RAIC Gold Medallist Blanche Lemco van Ginkel included a preliminary plan for Expo 67 with the caption “Blanche’s vision statement for…
Book Review: Modern Architecture and Climate—Design before Air Conditioning
Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning
By Daniel A. Barber (Princeton University Press, 2020)
It’s been more than 50 years since…