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HTA Podcast: Sensing Architecture, Part 2
How do you experience architecture if you can’t see it? In Part 2 of my conversation with Alex Bulmer, we…
HTA Podcast: Sensing Architecture, Part 1
Seen any interesting buildings lately? What if you literally couldn’t see them? What if you could only experience buildings through…
HTA from Coast to (almost) Coast
By Peter Coffman It’s hard to find two towns in Canada further apart than Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, and Dawson City,…
Art and Architectural History Students Field Trip to the Vernacular Architecture Forum
For four days in June, Michigan’s remote Keweenaw Peninsula hosted architectural historians from across North America. Among them were Carleton…
‘Possession’, ‘Ownership’, and Tr’ochëk National Historic Site
The Tr’ondek Hwech’in fishing camp of Tr’ochëk once stood on the flat land in the left middle-ground, where the Yukon…
Dredging for Dollars
By Peter Coffman Imagine a stream cascading down a mountain, winding through a lush forest of evergreen and deciduous trees,…
Bridging the Gulf of Incomprehension
Dawson City and the Yukon River. By Peter Coffman During his one and only Klondike winter, writer Jack London (of…
Dawson City’s Enclave of Power
Dawson City, Yukon. By Peter Coffman If I say “Dawson City”, you may think “Gold Rush! Canada’s wild west! The…
St. Anne’s Church: a Eulogy
St. Anne’s Church, Toronto, by Ford Howland (1907). By Peter Coffman I don’t enjoy writing eulogies, and I don’t think…
Morrisseau Storylines Website Launch
The Morrisseau Project, led by Carleton University Professor Carmen Robertson and partnering with The MacKenzie Art Gallery (MAG) of Regina,…
Elgin’s Red Brick Schoolhouse
The Red Brick School, Elgin, Ontario, from the south-east. By Peter Coffman We live in a time when education seems…
24 Sussex: A Parting Thought
(This blog resumes a discussion of 24 Sussex Drive begun here and continued here.) What if, in spite of all…