By Sean Ruthen
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Book Review From the Stacks: Form + Code
“Elegant as an algorithm, clear as a program, and as enthralling as a video game, Form+Code is a powerful tool, both as a tutorial and in-depth...
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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 greatest constraint...
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From the Stacks: The Ethical Architect – The Dilemma of Contemporary Practice
“Architects live and work today in a functioning but weakened profession that lacks a dominant design ethic. An opportunity to examine unquestioned...
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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 discrimination and...
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Book Review: Design Process in Architecture – From Concept to Completion
Author: Geoffrey Makstutis (Laurence King Publishing, 2018) This book will be particularly useful for those who are considering – or are in their first...
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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 major urban...
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Notes from Charlottetown
As the new BC/Yukon regional director of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, I recently had the privilege of meeting in June with my fellow board...
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Book Review: The Language of Cities
Author: Deyan Sudjic (Penguin Press, 2016) The early moderns did all they could to find ways of controlling the uncontrollable city. We do not belong to...
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Book Review – Public Natures: Evolutionary Infrastructures
Author: Weiss/Manfredi– Princeton Architectural Press (2018) In considering the evolution of ecological, urban, and social infrastructures, we have been...
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Acton Ostry Architects: 25 Years Young
While an architecture student at UBC in 1998, our class was asked to go out around Vancouver and photograph examples of ‘weather registers’, instances in...
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Book Review: Smith House II
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 building and site should be...
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Book Review – Preston Scott Cohen | Taiyuan Museum of Art
Edited by Benjamin Wilke – No. 11 Source Books in Architecture (Applied Research & Design 2017) Preston Scott Cohen has built a distinctive design...