Articles

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  Patrick Mahon

  For the last decade or so the most apparent characteristic in the art of Patrick Mahon has been the motif of a network, mosaic or grid.

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  Ted Barker

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  Gathie Falk

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  Adam McEwen

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  Álvaro Siza

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  Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art by Nancy Princenthal

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  Sky Glabush

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  Qavavau Manumie

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  What’s at Stake? The Canadian Presence at the 2016 International Architecture Exhibition

  In his published remarks as the President of the 15th International Venice Architecture Exhibition, Paolo Baratta describes the time in which we live as one “characterized by an increasing disconnection between architecture and civil society.” EXTRACTION, Canada’s entry in the 2016 Exhibition, takes a wide view of the practice of architecture and focuses on the processes and attitudes that have produced some uncivil conditions in Canadian society.

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  Figures of Influence

  By the early ’80s the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) in London had become a rich incubator of architectural speculation and the gathering place for the liveliest architectural discussions from around the world. The ringmaster of this potent construction was Alvin Boyarsky (1928–90), a Canadian who had studied architecture at McGill University (1946–51) and undertaken graduate studies in urban planning at Cornell University (1957–59). His meticulous and inventive curation of the AA stemmed partly from his critique of architectural education at the time and also from a fascination with how architecture might evolve during a period in which Modernism appeared to have run its course.

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  Figures of Influence

  As a student at Vassar College, Phyllis Lambert found the question of influence—as it was then taught—to be superficial. “I disliked that enormously, it was like saying that the wind blows this way so the artist or philosopher did that.” Provoked by simplistic narratives of causality and easy connections that amount to little more than trivia, Lambert readily speaks of the precedents, traditions and especially of the wide range of factors that combine to shape architecture.

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  Derek Dunlop

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