By Sean Ruthen
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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...
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Book Review: Local Architecture – Building Place, Craft, and Community
Sited at the LaHave River estuary on Nova Scotia’s Atlantic coast, where Samuel de Champlain made his first landfall in the new world in 1604, the Ghost...