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The Future Fix: Connecting your community to broadband
Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Connecting your community to broadband Reliable access to the internet is an essential service in any community. But there are barriers to bridging the “dig...
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Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Connecting your community to broadband Reliable access to the internet is an essential service in any community. But there are barriers to bridging the “dig...
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Book Review | Growing Up Modern: Childhoods in Iconic Homes
Written by Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster (Birkhäuser Publishing, 2021) Publishing these stories allows both architects and those interested in architecture to view these iconic buildings from another perspective, prompting readers to imagine design through the eyes of children and more genera...
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Written by Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster (Birkhäuser Publishing, 2021) Publishing these stories allows both architects and those interested in architecture to view these iconic buildings from another perspective, prompting readers to imagine design through the eyes of children and more genera...
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Book Review: Patented – 1,000 Design Patents
Thomas Rinaldi, Phaidon Press, 2021 From patents that have gone on to become world famous design classics to everyday, anonymous objects that have become indispensable and much loved possessions in homes and offices the world over, this book celebrates the creative vision of talented designers, ...
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Thomas Rinaldi, Phaidon Press, 2021 From patents that have gone on to become world famous design classics to everyday, anonymous objects that have become indispensable and much loved possessions in homes and offices the world over, this book celebrates the creative vision of talented designers, ...
Published at Spacing Edmonton
The City in Sight Podcast: Finances, Charters, and Constitutional Change
Spacing and Massey College proudly present City in Sight: Canada’s constitutional city crisis, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Finances, Charters, and Constitutional Change Throughout this series, a common complaint from Canadian mayors is cities lack the money they need, and the authorit...
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Spacing and Massey College proudly present City in Sight: Canada’s constitutional city crisis, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Finances, Charters, and Constitutional Change Throughout this series, a common complaint from Canadian mayors is cities lack the money they need, and the authorit...
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Book Review – Lateness
Written by Peter Eisenman and Elisa Iturbe, Princeton University Press, 2020 In this incisive book, internationally renowned architect Peter Eisenman, with Elisa Iturbe, proposes a different perspective on form and time in architecture, one that circumvents the temporal constraints on style that ...
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Written by Peter Eisenman and Elisa Iturbe, Princeton University Press, 2020 In this incisive book, internationally renowned architect Peter Eisenman, with Elisa Iturbe, proposes a different perspective on form and time in architecture, one that circumvents the temporal constraints on style that ...
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The City in Sight Podcast: Indigenous Cities
Spacing and Massey College proudly present City in Sight: Canada’s constitutional city crisis, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Indigenous Cities The Indigenous population in urban areas is growing fast. What are cities doing to provide for these populations, to build cities that reflect t...
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Spacing and Massey College proudly present City in Sight: Canada’s constitutional city crisis, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Indigenous Cities The Indigenous population in urban areas is growing fast. What are cities doing to provide for these populations, to build cities that reflect t...
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The Future Fix: Smart Farms for Northern Communities
Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Smart Farms for Northern Communities Food security is a challenge everywhere, but especially for northern communities. The climate can make growing food difficult...
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Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Smart Farms for Northern Communities Food security is a challenge everywhere, but especially for northern communities. The climate can make growing food difficult...
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From the Stacks – Tom Kundig: Houses
Edited by Dung Ngo (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006) Tom Kundig: Houses is the kind of monograph that makes most architect’s heart skip a beat. As a member of the successful architectural firm Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects (recipient of the 2009 AIA Architecture Firm Award), Tom Kund...
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Edited by Dung Ngo (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006) Tom Kundig: Houses is the kind of monograph that makes most architect’s heart skip a beat. As a member of the successful architectural firm Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects (recipient of the 2009 AIA Architecture Firm Award), Tom Kund...
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Book Review – Here & Gone: Artwork of Vancouver & Beyond
Text and watercolours by Michael Kluckner, Midtown Press, 2020 I could not have imagined Vancouver becoming such a city of contrasts even 30 or so years ago when I was writing the original Vanishing Vancouver book. Certainly, it was in its buildings – the West End had already become a conc...
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Text and watercolours by Michael Kluckner, Midtown Press, 2020 I could not have imagined Vancouver becoming such a city of contrasts even 30 or so years ago when I was writing the original Vanishing Vancouver book. Certainly, it was in its buildings – the West End had already become a conc...
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Book Review – The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
Authors: Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020) It is not a stretch to say that most contemporary urbanists have come across the 99% Invisible radio show at some point over the past decade. Since its start in 2010 as a collaborative initiative between the San Francisco pu...
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Authors: Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020) It is not a stretch to say that most contemporary urbanists have come across the 99% Invisible radio show at some point over the past decade. Since its start in 2010 as a collaborative initiative between the San Francisco pu...
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Book Review – Tom Kundig: Working Title
Princeton Architectural Press, 2020 When considering Kundig’s buildings, twenty-nine examples of which are included here in his fourth book, one is struck by how palpably they express, and how cannily they frame, the relationship between design and the environment. Each project reminds us how co...
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Princeton Architectural Press, 2020 When considering Kundig’s buildings, twenty-nine examples of which are included here in his fourth book, one is struck by how palpably they express, and how cannily they frame, the relationship between design and the environment. Each project reminds us how co...
Published at Spacing Edmonton
The City in Sight Podcast: Who’s in Charge of the Pandemic?
Spacing and Massey College proudly present City in Sight: Canada’s constitutional city crisis, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Who’s in Charge of a Pandemic? Dealing with COVID-19 has been a challenge for every level of government. And, in a country where government jurisdictions ar...
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Spacing and Massey College proudly present City in Sight: Canada’s constitutional city crisis, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Who’s in Charge of a Pandemic? Dealing with COVID-19 has been a challenge for every level of government. And, in a country where government jurisdictions ar...
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The City in Sight Podcast: The Case for Local Power
Spacing and Massey College proudly present City in Sight: Canada’s constitutional city crisis, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: The Case for Local Power Canadian cities often struggle with their lack of autonomy. Their status as “creatures of the province” can be a source...
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Spacing and Massey College proudly present City in Sight: Canada’s constitutional city crisis, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: The Case for Local Power Canadian cities often struggle with their lack of autonomy. Their status as “creatures of the province” can be a source...
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Book Review: France Sketchbooks
Edited by Laurie Olin and Pablo Mandel (ORO Editions, 2020) Drawing is about seeing and not wriggling one’s wrist. It is also an act of the mind. Seeing is part of being awake, and perceiving is part of being sentient. In an age of speed, multitasking, mechanical extensions and prostheses of all...
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Edited by Laurie Olin and Pablo Mandel (ORO Editions, 2020) Drawing is about seeing and not wriggling one’s wrist. It is also an act of the mind. Seeing is part of being awake, and perceiving is part of being sentient. In an age of speed, multitasking, mechanical extensions and prostheses of all...
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Book Review: 100 Ideas That Changed Architecture
Written by Richard Weston (Laurence King Publishing, 2020) This book’s title poses two obvious questions: what is an architectural ‘idea’, and how were the 100 ideas it discusses and illustrates chosen and organized? This book is intended to be a widely accessible and engaging introduction to th...
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Written by Richard Weston (Laurence King Publishing, 2020) This book’s title poses two obvious questions: what is an architectural ‘idea’, and how were the 100 ideas it discusses and illustrates chosen and organized? This book is intended to be a widely accessible and engaging introduction to th...
Published at Spacing Edmonton
