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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Sean Ruthen

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Architecture of Michelangelo Antonioni

    In the history of modern cinema, the relationship between architecture and human drama has only been fully exploited by a few filmmakers, and it could do...

  • Notes from the Maritimes

    At the end of May, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) held their 2018 Festival of Architecture in Saint John, New Brunswick, and...

  • Book Review – Copp House

    Author: Adele Weder (ORO Editions (2017)  In a mansion-filled Vancouver neighbourhood not far from the University of British Columbia stands a low-slung...

  • Book Review – Chandigarh Revealed: Le Corbusier’s City Today 

    Author: Shaun Fynn (Princeton Architectural Press (2017) More than sixty-five years have passed since Le Corbusier was commissioned by Pandit Jawaharlal...

  • Book Review: The Sagrada Familia

    Author: Gijs van Hensbergen (Bloomsbury Press, 2017) Giljs van Hensbergen has pulled off a remarkable feat, taming the monstre sacré of twentieth-century...

  • Book Review – Destination Architecture

    Author: Phaidon Editors (Phaidon Press, 2017) The global perspective provided by this portable book makes it the ideal companion for all travelers who...

  • Notes from Italy

    “To make this course of action clear to my French readers, I must explain that in Italy, a country very far away from us, people are still driven to...

  • Book Review: Friedman House

    Written by Richard Cavell, ORO Editions (2017) UBC SALA West Coast Modern House Series Following Dr. Friedman’s passing, the fate of the house was...

  • Film Review: BIG Time

    Director: Kaspar Astrup Schröder Not often does Spacing have the opportunity to review a movie receiving its North American premier, including an...

  • Book Review – Architecture’s Odd Couple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson

    Author: Hugh Howard (Bloomsbury Press, 2016) In architectural terms, the twentieth century can be largely summed up with two names: Frank Lloyd Wright and...