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…
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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…
Book Review: From the Ground Up—Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities
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…
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,…
Book Review: Almost, Not—The Architecture of Atelier Nishikata
What sleight of hand is required to create a richly comprehensive book, when the subject is just four small projects? Meticulous writing, excellent…
Best books for Canadian architects
The past year saw a bonanza of new books of interest to Canadian architects—many of them authored by Canadian designers. As the holidays approach, we offer…
Book Review: Slow Disturbance—Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial…
Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier
Duke University Press, 2021
REVIEW Lola Sheppard and Mason White
At…
Book Reviews: Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin and Sick City
Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin: Architecture and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century
By Matthew Soules. Princeton Architectural Press, 2021
Sick…
Book Review: Canadian Architecture—Evolving a Cultural Identity
By Leslie Jen (Figure 1 Press, 2021).
What is Canadian architecture? For author Leslie Jen, a former associate editor at Canadian Architect, there is no single…
Book Review: Everything Needs to Change—Architecture and the Climate Emergency
Edited by Sofie Pelsmakers and Nick Newman (RIBA Publishing, 2021)
Over the last 18 months, we have all thought a lot about change: with Covid-19, wildfires…
Book Review: A Natural Balance—The K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre and…
By Alex Novell and John Leroux (Acadia University, 2021).
This handsome volume documents a well-loved part of Acadia University—the publicly accessible Irving…
Pundit of the Public
When academic stallions are sent out to pasture, the last thing some are saddled with is a festschrift. These are collections of laudatory essays from…
Book Review: Voices of the Land—Indigenous Design and Planning from the Prairies
Voices of the Land: Indigenous Design and Planning from the Prairies
Edited by Reanna Merasty, Naomi Ratte, Danielle Desjarlais and Desiree Theriault…
Book Review: Accessible Architecture—Beyond the Ramp
By Ron Wickman (Gemma B. Publishing, 2020)
Ron Wickman is a passionate advocate for accessible architecture that goes beyond the minimum requirements of the…