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

Book Review From the Stacks: Extreme Architecture – Building for Challenging Environments

“The fascination of architecture in extreme environments is that it is so demanding technically, yet offers so much potential… the... Read More

Book Review: Small Cities, Big Issues – Reconceiving Community in a Neoliberal Era

Edited by Christopher Walmsley and Terry Kading (Athabasca University Press, 2018) In this collection, we reveal the broader forms of... Read More

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

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