architectural theory

Modest Hopes By Don Loucks and Leslie Valpy (Dundurn Press, 2021) Modest Hopes is a deep dive into the experiences of Toronto’s immigrants during the…

The arrival of the new book series Building Arguments, a collaboration between Concordia University Press and the Canadian Centre for Architecture that…

As an architecture student with aphantasia, the way I experience my environment offers lessons on being present in the everyday.

Architect, theorist, and educator George Baird died at his Toronto home on October 17, 2023, at the age of 84.  A member of the Order of Canada (OC),…

What is needed for today’s architects to tackle the wicked problem of sustainability?

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…

“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…