The Globe and Mail

Summer would be incomplete without a good book about architecture, a decent design magazine and a lounge chair. The Dutch, Swiss, and Spanish produce hundreds of books every year about their own cutting-edge schools of architecture. Watch for it! The momentum of books about Canada's significant architecture is growing. Celebrating an acclaimed East Coast practice is the sumptuous Plain Modern: the Architecture of Brian MacKay-Lyons by Malcolm Quantrill, a professor of architecture at Texas A & M University, with a foreword by the celebrated Australian architect Glenn Murcutt. The following titles in architecture, all 2005 releases, as well as one magazine, contribute importantly to Canada's culture of design.