Ideas

From the Ground Up: Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities By Alison Sant (Island Press, 2022) REVIEW Anne Lissett As the climate crisis worsens, and we…

Ice is elemental. As crystallized water, it might be seen as a building block of life. But it can be a literal building block too: witness the Warming Huts…

Architecture school has always been a hectic place filled with young, driven students. Every member of my class entered the program looking to become an…

In 2011, a student asked architect and historian Lisa Landrum, an associate professor of architecture at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Architecture:…

TEXT Leah Snyder PHOTOS Mathieu Gagnon © CCA The idea of home is adaptable, meaning many things to many people. It also has meaning to other mammals, birds,…

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…

In the ruthless postwar arena to build the nation in the modern paradigm, Barry Downs presented an anomaly. Soft-spoken, modest, and devoted to both…

Over the last two decades, the building industry has been developing new ways of decreasing energy use and related carbon emissions in new buildings – be it…

Given that 67.5% of all Canadians, or 23 million people, live in the suburbs, cities and those who plan, design, and invest in them, are exploring a myriad of…

Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead is the only novel that I ever tossed into the recycling after reading the last page. I still remember the THUNK of paperback…

It’s a summer of anniversaries for Reford Gardens, located on the Lower St. Lawrence River, east of Quebec City. 2022 marks the 150th anniversary of the…

Growing Up Modern, by Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster (Birkhäuser, 2021) REVIEW Javier Zeller PHOTOS Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster    Julia Jamrozik…