For over two decades, architect Sean McEwen and medical anthropologist Dan Small have been involved in designing and advocating for vulnerable populations in…
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…
Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning
By Daniel A. Barber (Princeton University Press, 2020)
It’s been more than 50 years since…
Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020.
Edited by Irene Cheng, Charles L.…
By Reza Aliabadi (Actar, 2020)
In this pocket-sized manifesto, Persian-Canadian architect Reza Aliabadi explores the idea of emptiness as the essence of…
By Léa-Catherine Szacka (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2019)
Considering the inherent limitations around exhibiting architecture, it is a…
LiMa Housing, Berlin, by Herman Hertzberger. Photo: Axel Burvall courtesy are.na
With lockdown in effect in many parts of the world, and urban streets and…
Some people are simply more self-aware than others when it comes to social distancing. The bigger question is how this will affect the way we think about public…
The dismal reality of the COVID-19 pandemic has hit with the first death of a colleague and hero. I write this just after learning that Vittorio Gregotti…
When curator Jean-Louis Cohen introduces journalists to his new exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, his enthusiasm bubbles over. Before he…
The Chicago Architecture Biennial challenges the profession’s entanglement with neoliberal economics, and its accompanying social and environmental ills.
The book Canadian Modern Architecture, 1967 to the present is now available. The book is co-edited by Canadian Architect’s Elsa Lam and architectural historian…
On September 11, the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) announced a major change in its leadership. Director Mirko Zardini will be stepping down at the…