I've always quite liked that for Abbé Laugier, the muse of architecture was female, and there she is, holding her compass, classical architecture in ruins at her feet. For us, it is not the primitive hut that is interesting, it is the water tower.

This journal was in hiatus for a couple of years, for many reasons.  In 2015 we transferred our Canada Council for the Arts funding to a new independent journal, The Site.  Without the relentless publishing schedule imposed by Canada Council grant stipulations I have had a chance to really consider what On Site review started as and then became over 34 issues.  

The entire archive of back issues is now on ISSUU — all but four whose files are lost, and some of the early issues were reconstructed, changed from black and white to colour.  In the process of doing this, I was reminded of the sheer volume of projects, articles, ideas and wide-ranging topics On Site review covered, and how many of the writers have gone on to be of significant influence in the discipline of architecture, urbanism and landscape.

Our motto from the beginning, not the last word but maybe the first, allows brilliant but shaggy thoughts, tentativity, ideas on the edge of chaos; never slick, never complacent.

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CALL FOR ARTICLES:: 

ON SITE REVIEW 37 

LINES  BORDERS  WALLS  CONTAGION

The here and thereness of things

edges
division
defence
demarcation
membranes
r u p t u r e

hedges
fences
gates
rivers
f l o o d s

difference
apartheid
[ m é ] t i s s a g e

greenbelts
freeways
c r o s s i n g s

Proposals due August 31, 2020
Mention how your proposal relates to the theme of this issue (above). Outline possible length, kinds of illustrations: images, maps, drawings, videos.
Remember, we are a journal about architecture, landscape, infrastructure, urban design, all as conducted on site.

Send to www.onsitereview.ca/contact-us

Finished articles due October 15, 2020
Images: 300dpi, at least 2000pixels wide, copyright clearance secured if not your own work.
Length: 500 - 5000 words