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).
Category: Reviews
“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)
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)
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)
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.
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.
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?