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Designing & Building
This second edition contains twelve projects from the Kansas architectural practice of Rockhill and Associates, spanning from their early design-build work to the recent completion of a 37-building affordable housing complex in New Mexico. The firm's work exhibits a keen understanding of the house as an ecosystem, exploring building design that capitalizes on the features of the natural environment. Preface by Christine Macy, essays by Brian Carter and Juhani Pallasmaa, postscript by Tod Williams.
Seeing, Selling, and Situating Radio in Canada, 1922-1956
"This catalogue accompanies the exhibition 'Seeing, Selling, and Situating Radio in Canada, 1922-1956' at Carleton University in the Discovery Centre located in the MacOdrum Library from 23 January to 30 April 2017, as well as "Making Radio Space in 1930s Canada" in the Carleton University Art Gallery from 27 February to 7 May 2017. It also accompanies exhibitions at the Allan Slaight Radio Institute at Ryerson University in Spring (May-June) 2017, at the Sound and Moving Image Library and Special Collections in the Scott Library at York University in Fall (September-December) 2017, and the Archives of Ontario from 1 September to 29 December 2017"--Page 5.
Boundary, Sequence, Illusion
"Boundary, sequence, illusion: Ian MacDonald architect presents selected projects, accompanied by analysis and commentary, from the work of the firm Ian Macdonald Architect, and several essays by scholars across the disciplines that reflect upon the work and its theoretical, historical, and social context."--
Brian MacKay-Lyons
Including an abundance of black and white drawings and photographs, this book looks at the regionalist approach of architect Lyons as exemplified by 16 selected projects from 1986 to 1997. Ranging from rural cottages and homes to urban houses and institutional buildings, each project entry includes
Arthur Erickson
Arthur Erickson Layered Landscapes - Drawings from the Canadian Architectural Archives is the inaugural publication of our Canadian Modern series. It presents and expands upon the content of the traveling exhibition, curated by Canadian Architectural Archives chief curator and archivist Linda Fraser with architectural historian Geoffrey Simmins. The act of layering has both practical and metaphoric connotations: it refers to Erickson's design process, in which he added layers of experience and inhabitation, enclosure and vistas onto a landscape, privileging the horizontal over the vertical. For Erickson, "line tells everything," and these drawings of some of his most inventive buildings remi...
"Living Lightly on the Earth:"
Built in 1976 by the Cape Cod-based New Alchemy Institute and designed in partnership with Solsearch Architects of Cambridge MA, the Ark bio-shelter was conceived as "an early exploration in weaving together the sun, wind, biology and architecture for the benefit of humanity." The structure's integrated ecological design features provided autonomous life support for a family of four, providing for all food and energy needs, managing all wastes, and enabling a new and symbiotic relationship between its inhabitants and the ecosystem of their home. The Ark deployed many then-experimental technologies that remain emblems of sustainable design today: solar heating with mass heat storage, a high-e...
In the Shadow of International Law
In this book, Michael Poznansky asks why countries sometimes pursue activities such as regime change in the shadows rather than out in the open for the world to see. He finds that international law plays a key role in this decision-making process because senior government officials, especially in the United States, are sensitive to brazenly violating rules surrounding when countries should and shouldn't intervene in the internal affairs of others. He argues that while the existence of such restrictions don't always prevent great powers from undertaking regime change when it suits their interests, they do have meaningfully impacts.
Battersby Howat
This monograph highlights the contemporary West Coast designs of Vancouver's BattersbyHowat Architects with an in-depth review of ten projects. Foreword by Christine Macy, essays by Brian Carter and Christopher MacDonald.
