Review of Cheryl Cowdy, Canadian Suburban: Reimagining Space and Place in Postwar English Canadian Fiction (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022)
Category: Texts
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.
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)
Settler Colonialism, Residential Schools, and Architectural History // Active History
We spent six hours a week in our first term learning about the Holocaust from one of the world’s foremost experts on Auschwitz, even as a powerfully tangible reminder of Canada’s own genocidal history stood, silently, a half-hour away. I’d visited Auschwitz, or Oswięcim, as it’s known in Polish, the summer before starting university. It wouldn’t be until graduate school that I would walk through the doors of the Mohawk Institute.
Exhibition Review: Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths // Archined
This exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture proposes a timely rereading of postmodernism that moves beyond the period’s self-generated theories, stylistic commonplaces, and images.
Lab Cult: An Interview with Evangelos Kotsioris // The Site Magazine
Wherein we discuss a complete re-enchantment with technology and the “laboratory,” and how scientists have been working as pseudo-architects all along.
Constructing the Image of a Nation // The Site Magazine
Questions of agency, land rights, and culture arose again and again in the McCord’s retrospective on nineteenth-century photographer William Notman, yet neither Notman’s work nor the exhibition framing it provided any easy answers.
Comparative (Post)Colonialisms
Conference paper on residential school architectures in Canada, USA, Australia, and New Zealand at SAHANZ 2017.