By Sean Ruthen
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Book Review: Citizen City
Edited by Robert Enright (Blueimprint Publishers, 2016) “The projects compiled in this book are the culmination of over 25 years of architectural...
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Book Review – Vancouver Vanishes: Narratives of Demolition and Revival
“Since 2005, nearly 9,000 demo permits for residential buildings have been issued in Vancouver. An average of three houses a day are torn down, many of...
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Places – Public Architecture: HCMA Architecture + Design
“This book provides a primer for architectural practitioners and the public alike; a portfolio of projects completed by a firm that, over its 40 year...
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Book Review – Slow Manifesto | Lebbeus Woods Blog
Edited by Clare Jacobson, Princeton Architectural Press (2015) “The purposes of this website are several – to provide access to my projects and writings...
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Book Review: House Shumiatcher
Written by Leslie Van Duzer, UBC SALA West Coast Modern House Series (ORO Editions, 2015) This is the story of a house, designed by...
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Book Review – 100 Diagrams That Changed the World
It all begins with a diagram. In architecture, it is the grand design of the floor plan; in mathematics, it is the graphic representation of an algebraic...
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Book Review – Busby: Architecture’s New Edges
Centuries from now, when historians look back to the beginning of the Anthropocene, a time when we realized that human beings had become the dominant...
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Book Review – The West Coast Modern House
The West Coast Modern House chronicles the development of mid-century modern Vancouver residential architecture and its continued influence on...
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Porch Parade
Summer is the time to get outdoors, and in the same spirit as the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London’s Hyde Park, the City of Vancouver has once again...
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Book Review – New Museums in China
Museums in China are booming. Their unique forms and innovative structures stand out among the more mundane buildings of China’s explosive urban growth...
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Book Review From The Stacks – Learning From Japan: Single Story Urbanism
“SANAA’s work does not introduce order as do those mid-century architectures to which it is routinely compared; rather it imposes a fine disorder and...
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Book Review From The Stacks: A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Vancouver
“To observe the city’s architecture is to enter into the optimistic vision of its planners and designers and so to engage in the work-in-progress...