architectural theory

“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…

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

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…

“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…

Professor and Canadian Architect correspondent David Theodore  has been named Director of the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture at McGill University.…

When academic stallions are sent out to pasture, the last thing some are saddled with is a festschrift. These are collections of laudatory essays from…

Writing about modernism in colonial contexts, architectural historian Gwendolyn Wright proposes that “the physical environment became a strategy for enforcing…

Since they first began their collaborative practice, Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe have continuously dedicated their life in architecture to building…

When Cornelia Hahn Oberlander passed away this May, Canada lost a trailblazing landscape architect and a dear friend. Always a step ahead—and a quick step…