Book Review: Habitat—Vernacular Architecture for a Changing Climate
Habitat: Vernacular Architecture for a Changing Climate
Edited by Sandra Piesik (Thames and Hudson, compact edition 2023)
Vernacular architecture is…
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Book Review: Reside—Contemporary West Coast Houses
Reside: Contemporary West Coast Houses
By Michael Prokopow (Figure.1, 2024)
A decade ago, Greg Bellerby’s book The West Coast Modern House: Vancouver…
Book Review: Designed Landscapes—37 Key Projects
Designed Landscapes: 37 Key Projects
By Alan Tate and Marcella Eaton (Routledge, London & New York, 2024)
REVIEW Ron Williams
Fresh…
Book Review: Constructing Health
Constructing Health
Tye Farrow (University of Toronto Press, 2024) REVIEW Laure Nolte
For a moment, recall a memory of when you felt instantly at…
Book Review: Fundamentals of Planning Cities for Healthy Living
Fundamentals of Planning Cities for Healthy Living
BY Avi Friedman and Alexandra Pollock (Anthem Press, 2024)
REVIEW Ian Chodikoff
Avi Friedman…
2024 RAIC Architectural Journalism and Media Award: The Edit
Winner of a 2024 RAIC Architectural Journalism and Media Award
Founded in 2015, The Site Magazine is an independent journal created by a…
Book Review: Platform.Middle—Architecture for Housing the 99%
Platform.Middle—Architecture for Housing the 99%
By 5468796 Architecture (Arquine, 2024) Winnipeg architecture firm 5468796 is known for…
Book Review: Manitoba Women in Design
Manitoba Women in Design
By Marieke Gruwel (Winnipeg Architecture Foundation, 2024)
Manitoba is an important site for the history of women architects…
Book Review: Building Arguments (Concordia University x CCA series)
The arrival of the new book series Building Arguments, a collaboration between Concordia University Press and the Canadian Centre for Architecture that…
Book Review: Exploring Vancouver (5th Edition)
Evidently, a lot can happen in ten years, which is the time since Harold “Hal” Kalman and Robin Ward last updated their popular Exploring Vancouver—a…
Book Review: Modern Architecture—A Planetary Warming History
Modern Architecture: A Planetary Warming History
By Hans Ibelings (The Architecture Observer, 2023)
REVIEW Graham Livesey
Hans Ibelings’s latest…
Book Review: Innate Terrain—Canadian Landscape Architecture
Innate Terrain
By Alissa North (University of Toronto Press, 2022)
REVIEW Jason Brijraj
Landscape architect and scholar Alissa North is no…
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: The Site Magazine—Deviant Devices and The Edit
REVIEW Christian Maidankine
Since taking over On Site Review in 2015, the designers, academics, practitioners, and journalists that make up The Site…
Book Review: Unplanned Visitors—Queering the Ethics and Aesthetics of Domestic…
By Olivier Vallerand (McGill – Queens University Press, 2020)
REVIEW Maya Orzechowska
“Gender and sexuality’s influence on the design and use of a space are…
Book Review: Ron Thom, Architect—The Life of a Creative Modernist
“Something akin to a miracle….” This is how John Fraser, Master Emeritus of Massey College describes his former institution, designed by Ron Thom in the early…