Centre Block: Building Renewal for the 21st Century
The following text is excerpted from A Portrait of Canada's Parliament by William P McElligott © William P. McElligott; essay copyright Stephen Fai and Allan…
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Book Review: Voices of the Land—Indigenous Design and Planning from the Prairies
Voices of the Land: Indigenous Design and Planning from the Prairies
Edited by Reanna Merasty, Naomi Ratte, Danielle Desjarlais and Desiree Theriault…
Book Review: Accessible Architecture—Beyond the Ramp
By Ron Wickman (Gemma B. Publishing, 2020)
Ron Wickman is a passionate advocate for accessible architecture that goes beyond the minimum requirements of the…
Book Review: The Architecture of Bathing—Body, Landscape, Art
By Christie Pearson (MIT Press, 2020)
For as long as I can remember, I have had a deep attachment to the ritual of private baths. As a transgender man, my…
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,…
Book Review: The Architecture of Point William
Chronicling the evolving vision of a site in Muskoka over several decades, The Architecture of Point William: A Laboratory for Living (ORO Editions, 2021) is…
Book Review: Pre-Fab Living
Book by Avi Friedman (Thames & Hudson, 2021)
Pre-Fab Living provides a timely overview of current pre-fabrication technologies through a collection of…
Top books for design-lovers
As a companion to our 2020 Holiday Gift Guide, here are our picks for the top books to add to the shelves of architects and other design-lovers this year.…
Book Excerpt: Concrete—From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future
The following excerpt is taken from Concrete: From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future by Mary Soderstrom (University of Regina Press, 2020). The book can…