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.

Exchange Centre // Canadian Architect

As a gateway building, Lazaridis Hall is dramatic yet effortless, distinguishing itself from its surroundings and creating visual openness with continuous glazing at grade.

Exhibition Review: Architecture as Evidence/La preuve par l’Architecture // SEQUITUR

The fragments of this exhibition add up to an archive that attempts to answer a question: without the witness, how do we determine truth?

Artin’ Around Waterloo and Newfoundland // The Community Edition

As Waterloo-based artist John Hofstetter told me, “you don’t ‘squeeze in’ Newfoundland.”

Use It or Lose It? On preserving empty heritage buildings // The Community Edition

A group called Friends of 48 Ontario is pushing to reanimate the 106-year-old structure, which was home to the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 50 for half a century and is now owned by the City of Kitchener.

Architectures of (De)Colonization // The Community Edition

The main building at the Woodland Cultural Centre is one of fewer than a dozen former residential schools for Indigenous children left standing in Canada. A campaign called Save the Evidence aims to preserve it as a museum – the first of its kind.

Poetry: Untitled // The Community Edition

under a fruitless tree, you / consider // the crackle / overhead …

On Making Art that Makes Itself // The Community Edition

The ambiguity of nets, curtains, veils, drapes—means of concealing that can also reveal—permeates the large-scale works by Barbara Hobot on exhibit at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (KWAG).