Book Review: Louise Blanchard Bethune—Every Woman her Own Architect
Louise Blanchard Bethune: Every Woman her Own Architect
By Kelly Hayes McAlonie (State University of New York Press, 2023)
Architect, mother, cyclist,…
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Book Review: The Suicide Magnet—Inside the Battle to Erect a Safety Barrier on…
The Suicide Magnet: Inside the Battle to Erect a Safety Barrier on Toronto's Bloor Viaduct
By Paul McLaughlin (Dundurn Press, 2023)
In 2003, the…
Book Review: 100 Women—Architects in Practice
100 Women: Architects in Practice
By Harriet Harriss, Naomi House, Monika Parrinder, and Tom Ravenscroft (RIBA Publishing, 2024)
This sampling of work by…
Book Review: David Penner Architect
Edited by Tom Monteyne, Jaya Beange, and Owen Swendrowski Yerex. With additional contributions by Eduardo Aquino, Jason Robbins, Ed Epp, Jac Comeau, Dan…
Book Review: All Things Move—Learning to Look at the Sistine Chapel
By Jeannie Marshall (Bibliosis, 2023)
REVIEW Adele Weder
For much of the past millennium, Christian iconography has dominated the Western world’s art and…
Book Review: Design Trails—Adventures of a Structural Engineer
By Paul Alexander Fast (2023)
Review Tim Ibell Most books devoted to structural engineering focus on the techniques and processes which underpin…
Book review: Observation is a Constant that Underlies all Approaches
Observation is a Constant that Underlies All Approaches
By Phyllis Lambert (Lars Müller Publishers, 2023)
REVIEW Elsa Lam
Architect and philanthropist…
Book review: If Walls Could Speak—My Life in Architecture
Architect Moshe Safdie listens to Yo-Yo Ma play the prelude to Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major on an open deck by the sea, seated alongside King…
Book review: Architecture + Itinérance—Pratiques inclusives pour une ville…
Architecture + Itinérance: Pratiques inclusives pour une ville solidaire
By Sarahlou Wagner-Lapierre, Élizabeth Prince, Véronic Lapalme, and Sonia Blank;…
Book review: Videogame Atlas—Mapping Interactive Worlds
Videogame Atlas: Mapping Interactive Worlds
By Luke Casper Pearson and Sandra Youkhana (Thames and Hudson, 2022)
REVIEW Ksenia Eic Video games have…
Book excerpt: D’Arcy Jones Architects, 2009-2020
D’Arcy Jones Architects, 2009-2020
By D’Arcy Jones (Dalhousie Architectural Press, 2022)
EXCERPT FROM INTRODUCTION BY Trevor Boddy
Barely at the mid-point…
Book Review: Beyond the Divide—A Century of Canadian Mosque Design
Beyond the Divide—A Century of Canadian Mosque Design
By Tammy Gaber (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022)
REVIEW Roberto Chiotti
Beyond the Divide: A…
Book Review: Context and Content—The Memoir of a Fortunate Architect
Context and Content: The Memoir of a Fortunate Architect
By A.J. Diamond (Dundurn Press, 2022)
REVIEW Stefan Novakovic
In the opening chapter of his…
Revisiting Roark
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…
Book Review: Growing Up Modern
Growing Up Modern, by Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster (Birkhäuser, 2021)
REVIEW Javier Zeller
PHOTOS Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster
Julia Jamrozik…
Book Review: 305 Lost Buildings of Canada
By Alex Bozikovic and Raymond Biesinger. Goose Lane Editions, 2022.
REVIEW Adele Weder
Contemporary cities have evolved from a plethora of buildings that,…