The documentary remnants of these projects, built and unbuilt, locate these building typologies within the colonial agenda: whether carried out on the reserves to displace traditional ways of living on the land, or off the reserves, in the case of residential schools that were intended to indoctrinate children into Euro-Canadian customs.
Nestled amongst the 1920s homes of a leafy neighbourhood in Hamilton, Hambly House seems to sail past the half-timbering, faux-stone cladding, and steeply pitched roofs of its neighbours.
My review of KPL’s Central Library renovation by LGA received an honourable mention in the Young Critic in Architecture Competition hosted by Maison de l’architecture du Québec.
The creation of a reader, through writing, is first and foremost the creation of oneself. As I write, I read, … More
Viewers become mediators, with the series of scenes on each screen flowing not past, but through this audience – asking them to act as witnesses to the visual dialogue.
Negating the idea of pre-existing, fixed space, these artists continue the very personal struggles of survivors by influencing the understanding of the residential schools as continuously present and problematic, and by facilitating processes that create new spaces by disrupting those of the colonial project.
We wait over an hour to get into the new prison, lined up with more than a hundred other curious visitors in a queue reminiscent of a well-frequented amusement park.
Editing and layout design for the proceedings of the ACADIA 2014 conference, with Riverside Architectural Press.
Elsworthy’s early photographs are in black and white, many of them tinted with watercolours, imbuing their everyday subject matter with … More
An expansive apparatus of architectural production played a significant role in the Canadian government’s efforts to assimilate Indigenous peoples (originally on Unmaking Things).
Magdalena Miłosz 