Ideas

Here are the latest book selections from the CCA bookstore.

Arcadis currently has various major projects on the go in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), across Canada, and around the globe.

Buildings are major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, responsible for about 40 per cent of these emissions according to the World Green Building…

As both a practising architect and as the president of the governing Council of a provincial architecture regulator, I have been following the national…

Thanks to the emergence of modeling software, contemporary architecture has seen the rise of buildings with complex geometric shapes. Traditional…

In late November last year, the province released its business case for relocating the Ontario Science Centre—and it’s full of holes. It argues that the…

The RAIC was thrilled to host its first in-person Congress on Architecture in Whistler, BC, on World Architecture Day in early October, 2023. Launched in…

I was privileged to work with Jerome Markson for over thirty years, first as an employee and later as a partner with Jerry and Ernie Hodgson. Over the…

Edited by Tom Monteyne, Jaya Beange, and Owen Swendrowski Yerex. With additional contributions by Eduardo Aquino, Jason Robbins, Ed Epp, Jac Comeau, Dan…

By Jeannie Marshall (Bibliosis, 2023) REVIEW Adele Weder For much of the past millennium, Christian iconography has dominated the Western world’s art and…

By Paul Alexander Fast  (2023) Review Tim Ibell Most books devoted to structural engineering focus on the techniques and processes which underpin…

Mitchell Marcus, Executive Director of Site Activation & Programming for Northcrest Developments, explores how "meanwhile uses"—such as at Toronto's…