Book chapter in Behind the Bricks: The Life and Times of the Mohawk Institute, Canada’s Longest-Running Residential School, ed. Richard W. Hill Sr., Alison Norman, Thomas Peace, and Jennifer Pettit (University of Calgary Press, 2025).
Author: M. Milosz
“Catholic/Colonial/ Modern” in Spaces of Indigenous Learning and Unlearning in Canada and the United States // JSAH
In 1961, St. Mary’s Residential School was rebuilt on a site overlooking the Fraser River in S’ólh Téméxw, the unceded and traditional territory of the Stó:lō. Its sparse, rectangular volumes, arranged at irregular angles as if scattered on the landscape, contrasted with the dilapidated structures of the previous campus down the hill.
Book Review: Emotion, Mission, Architecture // JSAH
Review of Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi, Emotion, Mission, Architecture: Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865–1914 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023).
Book Review: Canadian Suburban // H-Environment
Review of Cheryl Cowdy, Canadian Suburban: Reimagining Space and Place in Postwar English Canadian Fiction (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022)
Indians of Canada Pavilion, Expo 67, Montreal // Smarthistory
Under the theme “Man and His World,” Expo 67 dazzled over 50 million visitors with 90 pavilions showcasing feats of technology and displays by 60 participating nations. But the late 1960s was a time of great social change, and not all corners of Expo shared in the prevailing mood of optimism.
In the Scale of a Reserve // Canadian Centre for Architecture
The overlapping geographical, legal, and urban conditions of Burrard Inlet, in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland, form part of what might be called the scale of the reserve.
Settler Colonial Modern // Canadian Architect
Writing about modernism in colonial contexts, Gwendolyn Wright proposes that “the physical environment became a strategy for enforcing common values while maintaining difference within a conjoint modern world.” In Canada, little else exemplifies this statement so strongly as the century-long experiment known as residential schools.
Book Review: The Canadian Conversation: A Polish journalist’s perspective // Literary Review of Canada
Review of Joanna-Gierak Onoszko, 27 śmierci Toby’ego Obeda [The 27 Deaths of Toby Obed] (Warsaw: Dowody na istnienie, 2019)
Simulated Domesticities: Settings for Colonial Assimilation in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada // RACAR
Domestic spaces have long served as sites of encounter between Indigenous Peoples and colonial powers. Under colonial conditions, the home can become a refuge, but also a site of oppressive state intervention in the most intimate details of daily life.
Book Review: Race and Modern Architecture // Canadian Architect
Review of Irene Cheng, Charles L. Davis II, and Mabel O. Wilson, eds., Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
Magdalena Miłosz 