Jerome Markson News Today

In a conversation with Niall Patrick Walsh, Natasha Sandmeier considered the potential up-side(s) to the growing abilities of Artificial Intelligence

The death of an architect offers the opportunity to reflect on past icons while narrating their careers through architecture with the thoughts of their peers and a list of achievements in tow. Looking back, we recount lives in the field all too often simplified into being preeminent or respected...

Born in 1929, Jerome Markson grew up across the street from the Art Gallery of Ontario over his father’s medical practice (Dr. Charles Markson). He attended the University of Toronto in the heady years immediately following the Second World War, when architects truly believed that good, logical architecture could make life better.

Without Jerry’s stories, guidance, wit and Job-like patience when dealing with my sometimes naïve questions, I don’t think this column would have been as informative for readers

Jerome Markson, the 2022 RAIC Gold Medalist and modern social housing pioneer whose influence was felt widely across Canada, died in Toronto on Saturday, November 18, The Globe and Mail reported. He was 94 years old.  Markson will be remembered as a progressive architect who affected the...

Mr. Baird was part of a small group who reshaped the city’s built-form and planning policy, and also contributed to the birth of the discipline of architectural theory with the book Meaning in Architecture, which he co-authored

Country house near Uxbridge designed by architect Jerome Markson in 1989 is the Vera Wang of architecture

In her inimitable style, Globe and Mail society columnist Zena Cherry described the Estonian-Finnish wedding of Helvi Vickholm and Jaak Iir on June 16, 1967. But, along with the usual anecdotes and noting of attendees, Ms. Cherry dedicated about a quarter of her allotted ink to the church, St. Peter’s Estonian Evangelical Lutheran, which she opined would “add to any sightseeing tour of the city. “It is unique and beautiful,” she continued, “and according to architect Michael Bach is st...

There is a real danger that St. Peter’s Estonian Evangelical Lutheran church won’t exist for much longer

Certain works of architecture are so carefully woven into the times, places and cultures within which they are set, they seem to have always been there. Such buildings form the settings for events both ordinary and extraordinary, shaping not only the ways we engage and remember these events, but also quietly defining how we see […]