book review

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

Louise Blanchard Bethune: Every Woman her Own Architect By Kelly Hayes McAlonie (State University of New York Press, 2023) Architect, mother, cyclist,…

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…

Reside: Contemporary West Coast Houses By Michael Prokopow (Figure.1, 2024) A decade ago, Greg Bellerby’s book The West Coast Modern House: Vancouver…

Modest Hopes By Don Loucks and Leslie Valpy (Dundurn Press, 2021) Modest Hopes is a deep dive into the experiences of Toronto’s immigrants during the…

The arrival of the new book series Building Arguments, a collaboration between Concordia University Press and the Canadian Centre for Architecture that…

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…

Modern Architecture: A Planetary Warming History By Hans Ibelings (The Architecture Observer, 2023) REVIEW Graham Livesey Hans Ibelings’s latest…

Innate Terrain By Alissa North (University of Toronto Press, 2022) REVIEW Jason Brijraj         Landscape architect and scholar Alissa North is no…

Observation is a Constant that Underlies All Approaches  By Phyllis Lambert (Lars Müller Publishers, 2023)  REVIEW Elsa Lam  Architect and philanthropist…

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…

Architecture + Itinérance: Pratiques inclusives pour une ville solidaire By Sarahlou Wagner-Lapierre, Élizabeth Prince, Véronic Lapalme, and Sonia Blank;…

Videogame Atlas: Mapping Interactive Worlds By Luke Casper Pearson and Sandra Youkhana (Thames and Hudson, 2022) REVIEW Ksenia Eic Video games have…

REVIEW Christian Maidankine Since taking over On Site Review in 2015, the designers, academics, practitioners, and journalists that make up The Site…

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…

“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…