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Book Review – The Disaster Profiteers
Author: John C. Mutter (St. Martin’s Press, 2015) The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer is an analysis of what makes a natural disaster a...
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Proceed with caution on federal infrastructure plans
During the federal election campaign, Justin Trudeau promised major funding for infrastructure projects. There is no question that such projects are sorely needed. But how exactly will our billions be...
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Book Review: Ladders (2nd edition)
Author: Albert Pope (Princeton Architectural Press, 2015) “The contemporary city, the city that is at this moment under construction, is invisible.” So begins the journey into Albert Pope’s recently...
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Event: Re-Imagining the city – The (im)possibility of Design forum, March 10/11
Exactly forty years ago, Vancouver hosted the first UN Habitat Conference. In 1976, cities were struggling to survive, global warming was only feared by a tiny few, and the global rural to urban...
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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 hatmaker-turned-architect Judah Shumiatcher, built for his family in...
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Event: Re-Imagining Urban Form and Policy in a Global Economy – Abstract...
This is a reminder you have until January 15, 2016 to submit an abstract to this exciting international symposium titled Re-Imagining Urban Form and Policy in a Global Economy – The (Im)possibility of...
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VIDEO: How Driverless Cars will Change Cities
Why some say driverless cars won’t just change the way we commute, but the way we live. (via CBC | The National) The post VIDEO: How Driverless Cars will Change Cities appeared first on Spacing...
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A Legacy of Holes
One summer, when I was a teenager, a life-sized replica of Stonehenge made of compacted trash was erected in the empty lot on Sherbrooke & St-Laurent. At the time, there was scaffolding along the...
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Travel in Nunatsiavut, Labrador is a little different
Travelling in the winter can be a pain, it’s also just part of being Canadian. While we complain about winter driving and delayed flights, in most of Canada, year round travel and freedom of movement...
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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 that are not published elsewhere, to provide a...
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Book Review: Downs House II
Edited by Christopher Macdonald, ORO Editions (2016) “Against the varied and positive nature of the houses depicted in this series, it is important to note the essentially fragile nature of their...
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Uber and the Automated Car: A Slow Unveiling of our Transportation Future –...
In Part One of Uber and the Automated Car we learned a brief overview of Uber’s model, and began to look at the sharing community and how this new and rapidly growing sector is taking over traditional...
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Book Review – Studio Futures: Changing Trajectories in Architectural Education
Editors: Donald Bates, Vivian Mitsogianni, Diego Ramirez-Lovering (ORO Editions, 2015) The design studio is a central part of the design education, particularly in the fields of architecture and urban...
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Complexity and Contradiction: The New TELUS Garden Building
[Editor’s Note: This article written by Spacing Vancouver Editor-in-Chief, Erick Villagomez, was recently published in the August edition of Canadian Architect and we extend our heartfelt gratitude to...
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Book Review: Manual of Section
Authors: Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, David J. Lewis (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016) Drawings and different types of visual representation are an important part of the architectural design...
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Book Review – Michael Graves: Images of a Grand Tour
Author: Brian Ambroziak (Princeton Architectural Press, 2005) Between sitting alongside Peter Eisenman, Charles Gwathmey, John Hejduk and Richard Meier as a part of the New York Five and pioneering...
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Portrait Sonore Vancouver Launched!
Portrait Sonore is a not-for-profit Montreal-based atelier of architects, artists, and musicians who have for the past decade been creating walking tour apps of major Canadian cities. This new...
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Notes from Holland
As an architect on vacation, one does not travel merely to escape the ennui of change orders and field reviews. Time spent abroad in another city is an opportunity to witness firsthand the delicate...
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Legal Progress on the Right to Housing in Canada
According to the courts, there is no constitutional “right to housing” in Canada –at least not yet. This may be changing, however slowly, due to the direct citizen action and litigation challenging...
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Book Review – State of the World: Can a City Be Sustainable?
Author: Worldwatch Institute (Island Press, 2016) Every year since I started writing for Spacing, I have found myself anxiously awaiting the next State of the World book from the Worldwatch Institute....
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