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Bracket 3, At Extremes

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"Bracket [at Extremes]" includes critical articles and unpublished design projects that investigate architecture, infrastructure and technology as they operate in conditions of imbalance, negotiate tipping points and test limit states. We are conditioned, as designers of the built environment, towards the organization of people, programs and movement. Indeed the history of modern urbanism, architecture and building science has been predicated on an anti-entropic notion of programmatic and social order. But are there scenarios in which a state of extremity or imbalance is productive? Bracket [at Extremes] seeks to understand what new spatial orders emerge in this liminal space. How might it be leveraged as an opportunity for invention? What are the limits of wilderness and control, of the natural and artificial, the real and the virtual? What new landscapes, networks, and urban models might emerge in the wake of destabilized economic, social and environmental conditions?

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Twenty + change 03 : emerging Canadian design practices

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This new publication is the third in a series profiling emerging design practices from across Canada in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. Projects by nineteen Canadian designers engage the public realm in meaningful ways, investigate new ideas in collective housing and urban infill, and explore prefabrication and regional domestic vernaculars. The book includes profiles of emerging firms, project descriptions, full color images and essays by noted architectural critics, educators, and practitioners.

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Bracket [ goes soft ]: almanac 2

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Bracket 2 examines physical and virtual soft systems, as they pertain to infrastructure, ecologies, landscapes, environments, and networks. In an era of declared crises—economic, ecological and climatic, amongst others—the notion of soft systems has gained increasing traction as a counterpoint to permanent, static and hard systems. Acknowledging fluid and indeterminate situations with complex feedback loops that allow for reaction and adaption, the possibility of soft systems has re-entered the domain of design. Bracket 2 critically positions and defines soft systems through 27 projects and 12 articles. From soft politics, soft power and soft spaces to fluid territories, software and soft programming, Bracket 2 unpacks the use and role of responsive, indeterminate, flexible, and immaterial systems in design.

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Many norths: spatial practice in a polar territory

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"Many norths: spatial practice in a polar territory" charts the unique spatial realities of Canada’s Arctic region, an immense territory populated with small, dispersed communities. The region has undergone dramatic transformations in the name of sovereignty, aboriginal affairs management, resources, and trade, among others. For most of the Arctic’s modern history, architecture, infrastructure, and settlements have been the tools of colonialism. Today, tradition and modernity are intertwined. Northerners have demonstrated remarkable adaptation and resilience as powerful climatic, social, and economic pressures collide. This unprecedented book documents—through the themes of urbanism, architecture, mobility, monitoring, and resources—the multiplicity of norths that appear and the spatial practices employed to negotiate it. Using innovative drawings, maps, timelines, as well as essays and interviews, Many Norths reveals a distinct northern vernacular.

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Twenty + change 01: emerging Toronto design practices

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Twenty + Change 01 is the first publication documenting a biennial exhibition of emerging designers working in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. Projects by twenty-one Toronto designers rethink public and domestic space, new technology, and innovative materials and effects. The book includes profiles of emerging firms, project descriptions, full-colour images and essays by noted architectural critics, educators, and practitioners. Published simultaneously with Twenty+Change 02 .

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Twenty + change 02: emerging Canadian design practices

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Published simultaneously with Twenty+Change 01, Twenty + Change 02 is the second publication documenting a biennial exhibition of emerging design practices from across Canada working in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. Projects by twenty-one Canadian designers rethink urban infrastructure, propose new models for public space and housing, and examine the unique relationships between the single-family house and landscape. The book includes profiles of emerging firms, project descriptions, full-colour images and essays by noted architectural critics, educators, and practitioners.