Editorial: Building Resiliency
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2022 report focuses on the impacts of climate change, and the capacities of natural and human systems to…
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Policy: Rise for Architecture
INTERVIEW WITH Darryl Condon and Lisa Landrum
Since 2016, a task force of Canadian architects and educators has been mobilizing conversations on the future of…
Hiding in Plain Sight: Embodied Carbon & MEP Systems
Most industry embodied carbon targets and benchmarks focus on architectural building materials, without considering the embodied carbon impact of mechanical,…
Editorial: Is a recession coming?
Are we headed towards a recession? And if so, what should architecture firms be doing to prepare?
Over the past months, the Bank of Canada has steadily…
How does your firm measure up?
In a compact new book, former Smith Carter Principal and C.O.O. Rick Linley describes a simple method for understanding the financials of any architecture…
Practice: When Experience Counts
For architects responding to Requests for Proposals (RFPs), one of the most consistent head-scratchers is detailing a firm’s portfolio: not on independent…
Working with Indigenous Architects and Indigenous Procurement Requirements
TEXT Elsa Lam with Kelly Edzerza-Bapty, Dr. David Fortin, Tiffany Shaw, Dr. Patrick Stewart, and Alfred Waugh
In the past few years, there has been an…
Kollectif marks 15 year anniversary
Kollectif. a free weekly newsletter dedicated to sharing industry news from the AED professions in the province of Quebec, is marking its 15th anniversary.…
East-West Connection
Amidst the diversity of emergent narratives on culture and identity, I’ve been thinking about my own experiences with architecture, as a Chinese-Canadian…
Measures of Diversity
In January 2021, workplace people and culture consultancy Framework Leadership conducted a survey on workplace culture, leadership and inclusion within Canadian…