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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...
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Book Review – Villages in the City: A Guide to South China’s Informal Settlements
Editor: Stefan Al (University of Hawai’i Press, 2014) Although writing and research on informal settlements has increased significantly over the...
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Breaking down barriers in southwest Scarborough
This post by Michelle Kearns is part of Spacing’s partnership with the Toronto Cycling Think & Do Tank at the University of Toronto. Michelle is a...
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Sustainability infrastructure and the pursuit of global city status: a look at Mexico City
This post by Ryan Anders Whitney is part of Spacing’s partnership with the Toronto Cycling Think & Do Tank at the University of Toronto. Ryan is an...
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The Robbie collection of Expo 67 objects
Rod Robbie is a Canadian architecture legend, but to Caroline, Angus, Karen, and Nicola — the keepers of Rod’s vast archives — he was just a dad with a...
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Book Review: The Visual Biography of Color
Author: Frank Jacobus (ORO Editions, 2016) Like so many wonderful facets of world that permeate our lives, colour is often taken for granted. More than a...
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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...
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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...
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Book Review – Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability
Author: Eyal Weizman (MIT Press, 2017) I was as surprised as anybody: consoling a number of design students in the foyer of the Museu d’Art...
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Call for Entries: Urbanarium’s 2017 Missing Middle Housing Competition
What would it take to solve Vancouver’s housing crisis? The not-for-profit organization Urbanarium has issued an invitation to talented designers from...
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Book Review – You Say To Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn
Author: Wendy Lesser (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017) When I was completing the final project of my Interior Design degree, I started the project off by...
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Book Review: Binning House
Author: Matthew Soules (ORO Editions, 2017) Spending time in the Binning House is like being enveloped in a gentle super-reality, not a parallel reality...
By Sean Ruthen
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered