The Future Fix Podcast: Inclusion and a new “smart” campus in Montreal
Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. Three of the ten podcasts are broadcast in French. Spacing et Evergreen...
View ArticleBook Review From the Stacks: Form + Code
“Elegant as an algorithm, clear as a program, and as enthralling as a video game, Form+Code is a powerful tool, both as a tutorial and in-depth analysis of the aesthetics of the information age.” –...
View ArticleBook Review – An Architect’s Guide to Construction: Enduring Ways in the Age...
Author: Brian Palmquist (self-published, 2nd ed., 2019) Much has changed in design and construction since the first edition of an Architect’s Guide to Construction was published in 2015. The computer...
View ArticleThe Future Fix Podcast: The secret life of sensors
Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: The secret life of sensors A major component of “smart” cities is...
View ArticleBook Review: Soft City
Author: David Sim (Island Press, 2019) Bringing the soft back to cities Cities are often caricatured as hard and harsh. Concrete, steel, loud noises, crowds and congestion, bright lights, fast speeds,...
View ArticleBook Review: New Investigations in Collective Form – The Open Workshop
Edited by Neeraj Bhatia – Actar Publishers/CCA Architecture Books (2019) More than fifty years have passed since the publication of Fumihiko Maki’s seminal text, Investigations in Collective Form,...
View ArticleBook Review – Compression
Author: Steven Holl (Princeton Architectural Press, 2019) Compression of human habitat should be a concern of all global citizens living on this fragile planet. In my junior year at the University of...
View ArticleBook Review: Canadian Modern Architecture
Edited by Elsa Lam and Graham Livesey – Princeton Architectural Press (2019) This anthology comprises the contributions of seventeen scholars representing successive generations of Canadian...
View ArticleBook Review: The Architecture of Engagement – A Human-Centered Approach to...
Written by Jim Taggart– Abacus Editions (2019) This book provides an important insight into this emerging model of social sustainability in architectural practice. The concepts presented are both...
View ArticleBook Review: Tall Wood Buildings – Design, Construction, and Performance
Written by Michael Green and Jim Taggart– Second and Expanded Edition (Birkhauser Press, 2020) A fundamental change in the way in which we build our cities is imperative, re-learning how to build in...
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