Sean Ruthen is a Metro Vancouver-based architect and writer.

Book Review: Design Process in Architecture – From Concept to Completion

Geoffrey Makstutis – Laurence King Publishing (2018) This book will be particularly useful for those who are considering – or are in... Read More

Book Review – The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology In Its Place To Reclaim Our Urban Future

Author: Ben Green (MIT Press, 2019) This book is about the battle for the future of cities. The smart city may represent the next... Read More

As the new BC/Yukon regional director of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, I recently had the privilege of meeting in June... Read More

Author: Deyan Sudjic (Penguin Press, 2016) The early moderns did all they could to find ways of controlling the uncontrollable city... Read More

Author: Weiss/Manfredi– Princeton Architectural Press (2018) In considering the evolution of ecological, urban, and social... Read More

While an architecture student at UBC in 1998, our class was asked to go out around Vancouver and photograph examples of ‘weather... Read More

The design of a house is for me a resolution between the needs of a family and the demands of a site. The relationship between... Read More

Edited by Benjamin Wilke – No. 11 Source Books in Architecture (Applied Research & Design 2017) Preston Scott Cohen has built a... Read More

In the history of modern cinema, the relationship between architecture and human drama has only been fully exploited by a few... Read More

At the end of May, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) held their 2018 Festival of Architecture in Saint John, New... Read More