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Ideals Then Ideas

Alison Brooks Architects

Dalhousie Architectural Press
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Living Design

The Writings of Clara Porset

Concordia University Press
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Fabricate 2024

Creating Resourceful Futures

Riverside Architectural Press
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Colonization Through Design

Dalhousie Architectural Press
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Condoland

The Planning, Design, and Development of Toronto’s CityPlace

UBC Press

In an era of frantic vertical urbanization known as “condoism,” Condoland explores the planning and design of Toronto’s CityPlace, one of North America’s largest residential development projects – and reveals what can happen when the real estate industry comes to dominate city planning.

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Crossing Paths Crossing Perspectives

Urban Studies in British Columbia and Quebec

Edited by Meg Holden and Sandra Breux
Les Presses de l'Université Laval, Laval University Press
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The Inner Studio

A Designer’s Guide to the Resources of the Psyche, Second Edition

Riverside Architectural Press
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Barry Sampson

Teaching + Practice

Dalhousie Architectural Press
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Warming Huts

A Decade + Of Art and Architecture on Ice

Dalhousie Architectural Press
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Fabricate 2020

Making Resilient Architecture

Riverside Architectural Press
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Vancouverism

UBC Press, On Point Press

This is the remarkable story, told by a key insider, about Vancouver’s dramatic transformation from a typical mid-sized North American city into an inspiring world-class metropolis celebrated for its liveability, sustainability, and vibrancy.

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boundary sequence illusion

Ian MacDonald Architect

By Ian MacDonald; Introduction by Barry Sampson; Edited by Brian Carter
Dalhousie Architectural Press
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Resurgence of Organicism

Riverside Architectural Press
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“Living Lightly on the Earth”

Building an Ark for Prince Edward Island, 1974-76

Dalhousie Architectural Press
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Montreal's Geodesic Dreams

Jeffrey Lindsay and The Fuller Research Foundation Canadian Division

Edited by Cammie McAtee
Dalhousie Architectural Press
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Dan Hanganu

Works, 1981-2015

Dalhousie Architectural Press
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Fabricate 2017

Riverside Architectural Press
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Arthur Erickson : Layered Landscapes

Drawings from the Canadian Architectural Archives

Dalhousie Architectural Press
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Competing Modernisms

Toronto's New City Hall and Square

Dalhousie Architectural Press
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CITA works

Riverside Architectural Press
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Tactical Urbanism

Short-term Action for Long-term Change

Island Press
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Shim Sutcliffe

The Passage of Time

Dalhousie Architectural Press
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How to Study Public Life

Methods in Urban Design

Island Press
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BattersbyHowat

Dalhousie Architectural Press

Architectural Signatures Canada has been developed by Dalhousie Architectural Press to illuminate the work of emerging architects and designers across Canada and promote a widening debate about ideas, architecture, and design.

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Fabricate 2011

Making Digital Architecture

Edited by Ruairi Glynn and Bob Sheil
Riverside Architectural Press
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Stewardship of the Built Environment

Sustainability, Preservation, and Reuse

Island Press

Stewardship of the Built Environment shows how rehabilitating and reusing existing structures holds untapped potential for achieving sustainable communities.

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@LAB Architextile Laboratory

Electronic textiles in architecture

Dalhousie Architectural Press
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Architecture and the Canadian Fabric

UBC Press

Architecture and the Canadian Fabric traces how culture and politics have influenced, and been influenced by, Canadian architecture from first contact to the postmodern era.

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Making Healthy Places

Designing and Building for Health, Well-being, and Sustainability

Island Press

Making Healthy Places presents a diagnosis of-and offers treatment for-problems related to the built environment.

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Hylozoic Ground

Liminal Responsive Architecture

Riverside Architectural Press

Philip Beesley; edited by Pernilla Ohrstedt and Hayley Isaacs

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The Agile City

Building Well-Being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change

Island Press

In a very short time, America realized that global warming poses real challenges to the nation's future. The Agile City engages the fundamental question: What to do about it?

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Towards 0-Impact Buildings and Built Environments

Island Press

A compilation of key notes and best papers of the 2010 Sustainable Building Euregional Conference.

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Designing and Building

Rockhill and Associates

Edited by Brian Carter
Dalhousie Architectural Press

This book outlines twelve projects from the Kansas architectural practice of Rockhill and Associates, spanning from their early design-build work to their more recent projects.

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Architecture of Community

Island Press

A seminal work by a renowned architect and planner that provides a contemporary roadmap for designing or completing today's fragmented communities.

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Biophilic Cities

Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning

Island Press

A biophilic city, says Beatley, is a place that learns from nature and incorporates natural forms and images into its buildings and cityscapes. Biophilic Cities outlines the essential elements of a biophilic city, and provides examples and stories about cities that have successfully integrated biophilic elements – from the building to the regional level – around the world.

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Design with Microclimate

The Secret to Comfortable Outdoor Space

Island Press

Arguing that a comfortable microclimate is the foundation of well-used outdoor places, Robert Brown provides useful guidelines for dealing with climate data, site assessment, microclimate modification, communication, design, and evaluation.

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Atelier BUILD

Dalhousie Architectural Press

Architectural Signatures Canada has been developed by Dalhousie Architectural Press to illuminate the work of emerging architects and designers across Canada and promote a widening debate about ideas, architecture, and design.

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Twenty + Change 01

Emerging Toronto Design Practices

Riverside Architectural Press
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A History of Domestic Space

Privacy and the Canadian Home

UBC Press

Peter Ward looks at how spaces in the Canadian home have changed over the last three centuries, and how family and social relationships have shaped – and been shaped by – these changing spaces.

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Architecture e+c

Work of Elin + Carmen Corneil, 1958 to 2008

Dalhousie Architectural Press

This publication documents the travelling exhibition of the Corneils’ work which opened as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of the Carleton School of Architecture in October 2008.

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