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

Book Review: New Investigations in Collective Form – The Open Workshop

Edited by Neeraj Bhatia – Actar Publishers/CCA Architecture Books (2019) More than fifty years have passed since the publication of... Read More

Book Review – An Architect’s Guide to Construction: Enduring Ways in the Age of Immediacy

Author: Brian Palmquist (self-published, 2nd ed., 2019) Much has changed in design and construction since the first edition of an... Read More

“Elegant as an algorithm, clear as a program, and as enthralling as a video game, Form+Code is a powerful tool, both as a... Read More

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

“Architects live and work today in a functioning but weakened profession that lacks a dominant design ethic. An opportunity to... Read More

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