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The Future Fix: COVID and Critical Data
Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: COVID and Critical Data We hear a lot about Open Data these days. Researchers demand it, governments continue to promise more of it, and everyday people use it to...
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Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: COVID and Critical Data We hear a lot about Open Data these days. Researchers demand it, governments continue to promise more of it, and everyday people use it to...
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Book Review – The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
Author: Emily Anthes, Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2020) We spend most of our lives in buildings. According to well-known The National Human Activity Pattern Survey (NHAPS): A Resource for Assessing Exposure to Environmental Pollutants, North Americans spend roughly 85% of the...
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Author: Emily Anthes, Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2020) We spend most of our lives in buildings. According to well-known The National Human Activity Pattern Survey (NHAPS): A Resource for Assessing Exposure to Environmental Pollutants, North Americans spend roughly 85% of the...
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Book Review: The Architecture of Trees
Authors: Cesare Leonardi & Franca Stagi (Princeton Architectural Press, 2019) In Italy, most architects know this book and have drawn on the contents in its pages first during their university studies and later as professionals. The tree drawings appear in countless proposals and plan...
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Authors: Cesare Leonardi & Franca Stagi (Princeton Architectural Press, 2019) In Italy, most architects know this book and have drawn on the contents in its pages first during their university studies and later as professionals. The tree drawings appear in countless proposals and plan...
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The Future Fix: Safe Streets
Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Safe Streets For our second season, we wanted to begin with a challenge that faces many cities, large and small, that has been given a higher sense of urgency due...
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Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series. THIS EPISODE: Safe Streets For our second season, we wanted to begin with a challenge that faces many cities, large and small, that has been given a higher sense of urgency due...
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Book Review: Draw In Order To See
Author: Mark Hewitt (ORO Editions, 2020) Visualizing one’s ideas is a well known standard in the design fields. Thinking visually is particularly important in the fields of architecture, interior, landscape, and urban design, where a diversity of representations—from quick ideation sketches and m...
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Author: Mark Hewitt (ORO Editions, 2020) Visualizing one’s ideas is a well known standard in the design fields. Thinking visually is particularly important in the fields of architecture, interior, landscape, and urban design, where a diversity of representations—from quick ideation sketches and m...
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Book Review: McIntyre House
UBC SALA West Coast Modern House Series Written by Sherry McKay, Preface by Douglas Coupland (ORO Editions 2020) I miss that people once built houses like McIntyre House, homes that so elegantly address the time and place they live in, and which cost no more to build than ugly houses. Why are th...
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UBC SALA West Coast Modern House Series Written by Sherry McKay, Preface by Douglas Coupland (ORO Editions 2020) I miss that people once built houses like McIntyre House, homes that so elegantly address the time and place they live in, and which cost no more to build than ugly houses. Why are th...
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Book 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 timber and how to build tall with the new engineered timbers that the 21st century technologies a...
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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 timber and how to build tall with the new engineered timbers that the 21st century technologies a...
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Book Review: The Architecture of Engagement – A Human-Centered Approach to Sustainable Design
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 comprehensive and inspirational. The many case studies provide a diversity of examples, demonstratin...
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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 comprehensive and inspirational. The many case studies provide a diversity of examples, demonstratin...
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Book 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 intellectuals in the field, ranging from academics to critics and to architects and, in many instances, in...
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Edited by Elsa Lam and Graham Livesey – Princeton Architectural Press (2019) This anthology comprises the contributions of seventeen scholars representing successive generations of Canadian intellectuals in the field, ranging from academics to critics and to architects and, in many instances, in...
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Book 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 Washington, the world’s population at that time was exactly half of today’s 7.6 billion. In 2030...
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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 Washington, the world’s population at that time was exactly half of today’s 7.6 billion. In 2030...
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Book 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, which argued for collective form as an organizing device to address the increasingly fragmented cit...
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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, which argued for collective form as an organizing device to address the increasingly fragmented cit...
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Book 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, isolated people. With the increasing focus on ‘smart cities’, we are in danger of adding a...
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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, isolated people. With the increasing focus on ‘smart cities’, we are in danger of adding a...
Published at Spacing Edmonton
The 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 finding new ways to harvest data, and integrate it into ongoing urban planning. Obvi...
Published at Spacing Edmonton
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 finding new ways to harvest data, and integrate it into ongoing urban planning. Obvi...
Published at Spacing Edmonton
Book Review – An Architect’s Guide to Construction: Enduring Ways in the Age of Immediacy
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 technology supporting design and construction continues to improve at a rapid pace. There is grea...
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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 technology supporting design and construction continues to improve at a rapid pace. There is grea...
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Book 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.” – Domenico Quaranta, from the Introduction Edited by Casey Reas, Chandler McWilliams &...
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“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.” – Domenico Quaranta, from the Introduction Edited by Casey Reas, Chandler McWilliams &...
Published at Spacing Edmonton
