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

Book Review: 250 Things an Architect Should Know

Author: Michael Sorkin (Princeton Architectural Press, 2021) Equal parts poetic, practical, playful, and wise, Two Hundred and Fifty... Read More

Book Review: Cuban Modernism – Mid-Century Architecture 1940-1970

Authors: Victor Deupi & Jean-Francois Lejeune (Birkhäuser, 2021) In the 20th century, modern architecture thrived in Cuba and a... Read More

Written by Leslie Jen, Figure 1 Publishing (2021) What is Canadian architecture? The question has often been posed, with no single... Read More

Written by Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster (Birkhäuser Publishing, 2021) Publishing these stories allows both architects and those... Read More

Thomas Rinaldi, Phaidon Press, 2021 From patents that have gone on to become world famous design classics to everyday, anonymous... Read More

Written by Peter Eisenman and Elisa Iturbe, Princeton University Press, 2020 In this incisive book, internationally renowned architect... Read More

Edited by Dung Ngo (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006) Tom Kundig: Houses is the kind of monograph that makes most architects’... Read More

Text and watercolours by Michael Kluckner, Midtown Press, 2020 I could not have imagined Vancouver becoming such a city of contrasts... Read More

Princeton Architectural Press, 2020 When considering Kundig’s buildings, twenty-nine examples of which are included here in his... Read More

Edited by Laurie Olin and Pablo Mandel (ORO Editions, 2020) Drawing is about seeing and not wriggling one’s wrist. It is also an act... Read More