Ideas

The original intent of continuing education as a non-profit, low-cost-to-architects way to keep practitioners up to date is not immediately obvious.

There’s often a chasm between what urban planners envision and what is actually realized. Many plans, no matter how meticulously crafted, remain unfulfilled,…

The 2024 Canadian Architect Awards were tightly contended. Over two days of deliberation in October, jurors Andrea Wolff, Matthew Hickey, and D’Arcy Jones…

A day-long BEAT event featured five women who have developed in-depth technical knowledge as a key part of their career journeys.

Blanche Lemco van Ginkel and nine other women urbanists have been featured in the Dutch exhibition.

The DAS Bash, which runs through Nov. 28, is conceived as a living work-in-progress, with interactive displays to prompt fresh reflection on the past and…

Rather than viewing accessibility mandates as a burden, developers should recognize them as an opportunity to innovate, expand their customer base, and increase…

Architecture has traditionally been a profession of generalists, but can offer fulfilling opportunities for those who choose to specialize.  This was the…

Habitat: Vernacular Architecture for a Changing Climate Edited by Sandra Piesik (Thames and Hudson, compact edition 2023) Vernacular architecture is…

In mid-October, downtown Toronto was host to a surreal sight—a 2.7-kilometre-long run of two-metre-tall dominoes. Made of lightweight concrete, the 8,000…

Three years ago, Canadian Architect and Twenty + Change first partnered to bring a curated showcase of emerging Canadian architectural practices to the…

Every few years, we dedicate an issue to showcasing emerging talent. The following pages put the spotlight on 20 firms that our curatorial team chose for the…