Editorial: Post-pandemic Futures
As we look to the end of 2020, many architects are breathing a sigh of relief at having navigated, with more or less success, a harrowing year. While office…
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How architects can take advantage of R&D tax incentives
New buildings constructed using innovative techniques are springing up all over Canada.These structures only exist because someone tried to push the…
Book Review: Designing a World-Class Architecture Firm
Designing a World-Class Architecture Firm, by Patrick MacLeamy, FAIA
(Wiley and Sons: Houston, 2020)From the title, I initially thought this book was about…
Editorial: Pandemic Pulse
How are architects faring as we head into the second wave of the pandemic? Two surveys in late August—one by the Ontario Association of Architects, the other…
2020 Holiday Gift Guide: Updated
The pandemic has foregrounded the importance—and necessity—of supporting local economies and communities. In that spirit, we've assembled a 2020 gift guide of…
Pandemic effect: Equity in architecture firms
TEXT Betsy Williamson, Principal, Williamson Williamson
The atomization of architecture offices during the pandemic presented an immediate and profound…
Pandemic effect: Team structure
TEXT Jason-Emery Groen, Design Director, HDR
What can COVID-19 teach architecture firms about the optimal structure of design teams? The pandemic swiftly…
Covid-19: A push for sustainable construction
How will the Covid-19 pandemic affect the built environment? Will we have to rethink concepts such as urban densification—or will we simply return to “business…
Turn the norm (not a return to norm)
When lockdowns and stay-at-home orders began to respond to Covid-19, so did questions of when things can “return to normal”. This line of questioning…
CAFÉ: Last call for manifestos and input
The Canadian Architecture Forums on Education (CAFÉ) is issuing a last call for manifestos and feedback from architecture students and educators. Over the…