I was honoured to be invited to contribute to the Extraction issue of the Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (JSSAC). Building on my CBC opinion piece on adaptive reuse and the climate crisis, my new article explores questions of materiality, heritage, and modernism in Canada, through the lens of reuse of brutalist buildings.
“Concrete Futures: Extractive Legacies and Building Reuse in Canada” is online now with free public access through Érudit.org.
This week, a launch event is being hosted by the editors of this special issue, Christopher Alton, Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon, and Zannah Mae Matson, who are all members of the Beyond Extraction collective.
Full bibliographical reference:
Sarah Sheehan, “Concrete Futures: Extractive Legacies and Building Reuse in Canada,” in Architecture and Extraction, ed. Christopher Alton, Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon, and Zannah Mae Matson, JSSAC / JSEAC 49.1 (2024), 58–81.
With thanks to Christopher Alton, Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon, Zannah Matson, Réjean Legault, and Jessica Mace. For assistance with image permissions questions, thanks to Nina Boccia, KPMB; Ed Cassavoy and Pat Surphlis, Torstar; Melissa Caza, Health Sciences Archives, McMaster University; Andrea Chin, Diamond Schmitt Architects; Lucie Cloutier, Grand Théâtre de Québec; Pierre-Olivier Ferland, Lemay; Stéphane Groleau; Elsa Lam; Michael at ERA Architects; Magda Opas and Luke Stempien, Local History & Archives, Hamilton Public Library; Sarah Philpott, Contemporary Calgary; David Premi and Benita Whyte, DPAI; Laura Sears, McCallum Sather Architects; John Shoesmith, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto; Theressa Takasaki, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre; Katie Weber, Moriyama Teshima Architects; and Katie Wilson, The National Ballet of Canada. Special thanks to Jim Brown and Marc Skulnick.
Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (JSSAC) is the biannual journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada, a charity founded in 1974. Open access is through Érudit, with permanent archiving provided by Portico.
Photo: Gerard Yunker / Contemporary Calgary.
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