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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Erick Villagomez

  • Visual Thoughts #35

    Last VT image: The Vancouver “Dingbat” building type, Vancouver, BC. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver...

  • Book Review: 100 Years of Architectural Drawings: 1900-2000

    Author: Neil Bingham (Laurence King Publishing, 2013) The late Australian avant-garde artist Brett Whiteley once said “A great drawer is either...

  • Visual Thoughts #33

    Last VT image: Sunset near 12th Ave and Woodland Drive, Vancouver, BC. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is...

  • Book Review, From the Stacks: Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environments

    Author: David Gissen (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009)
 Nature is ever present in our daily lives, Yet when we think and speak of “nature”...

  • Visual Thoughts #32

    Last VT image: Landscape in Bolivar Province near Guaranda, Ecuador. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also...

  • Storage Urbanism

    Storage. Along with money, it seems to be something people never have enough of. The past half century has seen the doubling of the consumption rate of...

  • Visual Thoughts #31

    Last VT image: Building projection, Nob Hill, San Francisco. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an...

  • Giant Island Press eBook sale on urbanism titles – $4.99, until Aug. 5th

    Island Press is celebrating the summer with a giant eBook sale. This special sale includes more than 500 titles from three decades of publishing the best...

  • Visual Thoughts #30

    Last VT image: Robert Dollar’s cedar mill foundation ruins, North Vancouver. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing...

  • Book Review: -arium: Weather and Architecture

    Edited by Jürgen Mayer-Hermann & Neeraj Bhatia (Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2009) With its the everyday presence and seemingly predictable nature, weather...

  • Visual Thoughts #29

    Last VT image: View to Alcatraz, San Francisco, California. *** Erick Villagomez is one of the founding editors at Spacing Vancouver. He is also an...

  • Book Review – From the Stacks: The BLDG BLOG Book

    Author: Geoff Manaugh (Chronicle Books, 2009) “What is architecture?” is one of those often joked about yet fundamental questions in...