Book Review: Almost, Not—The Architecture of Atelier Nishikata
What sleight of hand is required to create a richly comprehensive book, when the subject is just four small projects? Meticulous writing, excellent…
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Review: Kenneth Frampton in Two Books
Modern Architecture (Fifth Edition)
By Kenneth Frampton (Thames & Hudson, 2020)
Modern Architecture and the Lifeworld: Essays in Honor of Kenneth…
Best books for Canadian architects
The past year saw a bonanza of new books of interest to Canadian architects—many of them authored by Canadian designers. As the holidays approach, we offer…
Book Review: Falconi’s Tractor
Falconi’s Tractor, by Dave LeBlanc (Guernica Editions, 2019)
Canada has few architecture writers like Globe and Mail columnist Dave LeBlanc, whose…
Book Review: Slow Disturbance—Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial…
Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier
Duke University Press, 2021
REVIEW Lola Sheppard and Mason White
At…
Book Reviews: Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin and Sick City
Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin: Architecture and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century
By Matthew Soules. Princeton Architectural Press, 2021
Sick…
Book Review: Canadian Architecture—Evolving a Cultural Identity
By Leslie Jen (Figure 1 Press, 2021).
What is Canadian architecture? For author Leslie Jen, a former associate editor at Canadian Architect, there is no single…
Book Review: GHETTO
By Henriquez Partners Architects and Wei Li (Blue Imprint, 2021).
Henriquez Partners Architects was one of several architects invited to exhibit their work in…
Book Review: Everything Needs to Change—Architecture and the Climate Emergency
Edited by Sofie Pelsmakers and Nick Newman (RIBA Publishing, 2021)
Over the last 18 months, we have all thought a lot about change: with Covid-19, wildfires…
Book Review: A Natural Balance—The K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre and…
By Alex Novell and John Leroux (Acadia University, 2021).
This handsome volume documents a well-loved part of Acadia University—the publicly accessible Irving…