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By Sean Ruthen

  • All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities

    Written by Michael Sorkin (Verso, 2011) Thirty years and ten books later, architect and critic Michael Sorkin has given us All Over the Map: Writing on...

  • Fast-Forward Urbanism: Rethinking Architecture’s Engagement with the City

    Editors: Dana Cuff and Roger Sherman (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011) In his well-known 1978 book – Collage City – architectural...

  • 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...

  • TownShift: Connected

    “The city to come… Cities have changed. Their appearance has changed as has the way they are inhabited by people. Above all, cities have become privileged...

  • EVENTS: Jan Gehl: Cities for People

    Much like Juhani Pallasmaa wowed the crowd at the Vancouver Playhouse over a year ago and David Byrne a few months past, Jan Gehl inspired a capacity...

  • Cities, Bicycles, and the Future of Getting Around

    With the recent panel discussion at the Vancouver Playhouse of Cities, Bicycles, and the Future of Getting Around, re:place was there as both panelist and...

  • Architecture Canada in Metro Vancouver

    With the recent Second Annual Advocacy Awards of Excellence presented by the Metro Vancouver Chapter of the RAIC/Architecture Canada, keynote speaker Bing...

  • Notes from Barcelona

    Having recently returned from Barcelona, Sean Ruthen of re:place magazine presents a monograph of architecture from that city, and ponders how we in the...

  • The Miss Guides Part II

    Since last summer, Vancouver has been home to three performance artists who call themselves The Miss Guides – Natalie, Katherine, and Sean, also...

  • The Gallery in the City

    With the recent reopening of the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, along with a newly renovated Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton, re:place contributor...

  • Juhani Pallasmaa: Architect of the Senses

    With the recent visit of Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa to the UBC School of Architecture (SALA), many in Vancouver’s architectural community...

  • TownShift: A Surrey Odyssey

    Can we build livability, walkability, sustainability, and residential density around the shopping mall, along the retail strip, beside the rec centre...