Spacing Vancouver's Editor-in-chief, Erick Villagomez has published an online review of the book -arium: Weather and Architecture.

-arium documents the research and design proposals done at the University of Toronto during the 2008 architecture studio held by Jürgen Mayer H. – the first European architect to hold Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair of Architectural Design position at the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Design.

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As a school-based book -arium is very impressive. Its beautiful design and high-quality production makes it stand out amongst other school-based architecture publications – particularly within the Canadian context. Similar to other design school anthologies, however, the specificity of the topic and conceptual nature of its content caters to primarily to architecture students and professionals.

That said, the research essays given in the Weather Report are very engaging and more broadly applicable insofar that they provide accessibly-written and succinct descriptions of the effect of weather on the the built landscape and other global systems. A collection of writings on such a rare subject make this a valuable read and reference for further investigation.

For the full review, visit Spacing's website.