By Sean Ruthen
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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...
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Book Review: Design School Wisdom
Design School Wisdom was born out of a desire to share the wisdom of design instructors with designers everywhere – students just entering their studies...
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Book Reviews From the Stacks – Le Corbusier: Homme de Lettres
“Known for his modern architecture, numbering fewer than sixty buildings, Charles Edouard Jeanneret/Le Corbusier (1887-1965) also wrote some fifty...
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Book Review: Derrida for Architects
Even the most prosaic oppositions of architecture can be cast in terms that indicate something is really at stake. This is Derrida for architects. There...
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Book Review – The Architecture of Art Museums: A Decade of Design
As a building type, art museums are unparalleled for the opportunities they provide for architectural investigation and experimentation. They are...
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Book Review: Twenty Minutes in Manhattan
Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca...
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Book Review – Bing Thom Works
“As the author himself states, this is not the typical architect’s monograph. For the book, Bing Thom has selected a number of projects from...
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Book Review – Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life
This full biography of Erickson, who died in 2009 at age eighty-four, traces his life from its modest origins to his emergence on the world stage...
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Book Review: Pools – Aquatic Architecture: Hughes Condon Marler Architects
Vancouver is globally acclaimed for its advanced architecture and urbanism, and Hughes Condon Marler Architects is one of its most respected and...
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Book Review: BattersbyHowat
BattersbyHowat have been focused on an integrative approach to design, looking beyond the confines of architecture. This approach examines the nature of...
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Book Review – Blue Sky Living: The Architecture of Helliwell + Smith
There is a singular, sinuous line of fine houses shaped by Kim Smith and Bo Helliwell through some of North America’s most dramatic landscapes. Like a...